What is Nostr?
Julia Evans /
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2024-11-20 14:19:19
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Julia Evans on Nostr: nprofile1q…m9pxu ah yea it's a "fake" record type, some DNS providers support it as ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqs6nlllfckfel0gqv7wq2gzjzt0wxe9j9lc55eekrsm30exvsygrq5m9pxu (nprofile…9pxu) ah yea it's a "fake" record type, some DNS providers support it as a way to use a CNAME record at the root of a domain. not sure if there's a real standard, some call it ALIAS some call it ANAME.

the way it works is that the authoritative nameserver resolves the domain internally and then returns an A record
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