Dumb question

[Barry Margolin]

In article <ptWQ4.91228$cZ.207930 at typhoon.southeast.rr.com>,
Jack Aubert <jaubert at cpcug.org> wrote:
>I realized recently that I don't know the answer to a basic question, whiich
>is kind of embarrassing since I'm taken for a local guru on DNS questions.
>
>How do sites resolve domain names directly to a web server or group of web
>servers without a host name?  For example, "nytimes.com" resolves to three
>or four addresses which appear to be aliases for www1, www2, www2 and so
>forth.  I have in my own little dns an entry for www.chezaubert.net that
>resolves to an IP address.  How do I resolve chezaubert.net to the same IP
>address?

nytimes.com *is* a hostname.  Any record with an A record is a hostname,
and there's no reason why you can't put an A record on the domain name
itself.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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