Mark wrote:
No. As has been brought up, though, the confusion probably exists
because of DNS A records. So, while people should still have RTFM-ed,
I can understand the mistake (you could perhaps even say that, for
this reason, the choice of "a" to represent a domain name, instead
of its namesake A record, was somewhat unfortunate).
Reading myself back, I believe I worded this a bit awkwardly. What I meant
is the following:
An A record assigns an IP address to a domain name. I believe the erroneous
"a:1.2.3.4" representation happens because people mentally interpret the RHS
of what comes after the ":" as that which is assigned to the A record: an IP
address.
- Mark
System Administrator Asarian-host.org
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