A records point to a domain

Thu May 18 16:57:37 UTC 2000

Stewart Tolhurst wrote:

> e.g. http://yahoo.com goes to the
> same site as http://www.yahoo.com

> It seems to me that this breaks every DNS convention - but it appears to
> work.

Exactly what do you mean it would "break"? "yahoo.com." is a perfectly
valid, normal domain name, just like "www.www.yahoo.com.",
"www.yahoo.com." or "www.com."

> Does anyone have any resources/information on this?

The basics of DNS are described in RFCs 1034 and 1035.

Thor

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