domainname with www

[Barry Margolin]

In article <37B34BA5.B7556D88 at csu.edu.au>,
Tim Rayner  <trayner at csu.edu.au> wrote:
>I'd suggest using an A record rather than a CNAME for www.a-m-t.net
>
>Someone more experienced may be able to tell you why a CNAME may not be
>allowed here.
>
>> www.a-m-t.net.    IN CNAME    a-m-t.net.
>
>www.a-m-t.net      IN A 194.162.164.225

You forgot a dot.

>From my limited expereince, all I can tell you that an A record "looks
>nicer", and I've had them work for me!

There's nothing wrong with the CNAME.  It would be wrong if he tried to do
it the other way around:

a-m-t.net.  IN CNAME www.a-m-t.net.

See my previous post that explains that the problem is that the zone hasn't
transferred from ns1.granitecanyon.com to ns2.granitecanyon.com.

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