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	BCP 17:
        RFC 2219:

        Title:      Use of DNS Aliases for Network Services
	Author:     M. Hamilton, R. Wright
        Status:     Best Current Practice
	Date:       October 1997
        Mailbox:    m.t.hamilton@lut.ac.uk, wright@lbl.gov
        Pages:      8
        Characters: 17858
        Updates/Obsoletes:  None

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2219.txt


It has become a common practice to use symbolic names (usually CNAMEs)
in the Domain Name Service (DNS - [RFC-1034, RFC-1035]) to refer to
network services such as anonymous FTP [RFC-959] servers, Gopher
[RFC-1436] servers, and most notably World-Wide Web HTTP [RFC-1945]
servers.  Although this approach has been almost universally adopted,
there is no standards document or similar specification for these
commonly used names.  This document seeks to rectify this situation by
gathering together the extant \'folklore' on naming conventions, and
proposes a mechanism for accommodating new protocols.

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Joyce K. Reynolds and Alegre Ramos
USC/Information Sciences Institute