<div dir="ltr">Hello everyone<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Someone asked me question on why google uses cname for their services anyways? I mean I get it that for Google Apps customers it makes sense to have <a href="http://mail.domain.com">mail.domain.com</a> pointed to a cname rather then A record to a host which may die. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>But why for their own services? Like e.g "<a href="http://mail.google.com">mail.google.com</a>" is cname to <a href="http://googlemail.l.google.com">googlemail.l.google.com</a>. and <a href="http://googlemail.l.google.com">googlemail.l.google.com</a>. eventually returns A record. This adds up one extra step in resolution and I wonder why Google does it this way? What advantage they get ? or What advantage they miss if they simply return record which I am getting for <a href="http://googlemail.l.google.com">googlemail.l.google.com</a>. directly as A record for <a href="http://mail.google.com">mail.google.com</a> ? </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Curious to hear your thoughts. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks! </div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><br></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Anurag Bhatia<br></font><div></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://anuragbhatia.com" target="_blank">anuragbhatia.com</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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