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		yeukhon on Nov 8, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google services set for 'return' to China It's a slang I use to mean for various of things :-) like aliases. I am an infrastructure person. Actually google.com.cn is not a CNAME to google.com.hk. You have to click on the image they put on .cn which redirects you to .hk.

CoffeeOnWrite on Nov 8, 2015 [–]

I too like symlink as a useful general purpose reference point that's more specific than pointer. In this case though it's a bit dissonant since there is a direct analog in the domain of DNS (cname). Thanks for the clarification!

yeukhon on Nov 9, 2015 | [–]

Hey no worries! I got carry away :-)

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