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Re:What came first: the CNAME or the A record? by bashook on Monday January 19, 2026 @09:34PM (#46687219)
I was even more surprised to see that the RFC draft had original text from the author dating back to 2015. https://github.com/ableyjoe/draft-jabley-dnsop-ordered-answe...

We used to say at work that the best way to get promoted was to be the programmer that introduced the bug into production and then fix it. Crazy if true here...

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Re:What came first: the CNAME or the A record? by jdmnd on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @05:01PM (#46698311)
What you're suggesting seems like a spectacular leap. I do not think it is very likely that the unnamed employee at Cloudflare that was micro-optimising code in the DNS resolver is also the author of this RFC, Joe Abley (the current Director of Engineering at the company, and formerly Director of DNS Operations at ICANN).
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