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Naji Norder <n.norder@computer.org> wrote:
> I wouldn't say that they are entirely different things. A domain name is
> any old DNS entry. Some DNS entries just happen to point to a particular
> host machine. From a domain name standpoint, there really is no major
> difference.
There may be no functional difference, but they're very different things.
A domain name certainly _isn't_ any old DNS entry. A DNS entry can be a lot
of things -- an MX record, a CNAME, etc. Some DNS entries are for host names.
Those get A records, telling the address. Others are for domain names. Those
get NS records, saying what nameserver knows about that domain. Sometimes,
one name happens to be both things -- in fact, very often these days.
(That's technically incorrect, but I think common usage has made it less
so.)
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