Generic Zone File??
Chip Old
fold at bcpl.net
Fri Apr 20 19:51:44 UTC 2001
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Bill Larson wrote:
> General question relating to this setup:
>
> The RR for "www" could be an "A" record rather than a CNAME. Is there
> any major advantage to using one or the other for this purpose?
> Using a CNAME makes changing the server address easier, but will
> require two DNS queries. Anything else?
Both ways work, and aside from the double query issue when CNAMEs are used
I'm not aware of any functional difference. However I still prefer to use
CNAMEs, for no other reason than to me it seems more logical and orderly.
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