id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	resolution	keywords	cc
140	Pony: Stop telling people to decide between CNAME and A records	andersk		"“You can request a non-MIT hostname, but you'll have to register the hostname yourself and configure it's DNS with a CNAME record for ""scripts-vhosts.mit.edu."" or an A record for scripts-vhosts.mit.edu's IP address, 18.181.0.46.”

This isn’t useful to the typical user; the choice between CNAME and A is just confusing.  Also, there are too many caveats associated with CNAMEs (canonicalization will kill most of your incoming mail, and you can’t use them at the top of a zone).  We should just tell all users to use A records.

If for some reason we want to document that CNAMEs are supported even though they’re strictly inferior, we can put that information in an FAQ somewhere, but it shouldn’t be on the Pony form.
"	defect	closed	tiny		web	fixed