CIFS and SPN records

[digdev]

Some of our vservers that provide CIFS have a DNS alias. For each of the aliasses I created a HOST spn record. Although everything works fine I was wondering if a CIFS spn record is also recommended for each alias? Some Netapp documentation mentions HOST records, others mention CIFS records.

[parisi]

Host should be fine, but it wouldn't hurt to add CIFS as it would provide a way for clients that make that request to use it. In fact, ONTAP leverages HOST/ as the SPN when it joins a domain.