domain CNAME ?

[Berislav Todorovic]

In article <3.0.5.32.19990728103527.00982970 at mail.well.com>, Chris
Cariffe <chriss at well.com> wrote:
> how can i take a domain record
>
> mydomain.com.	IN	A	1.2.3.4
>
> and change it to cname to a
>
> www.mydomain.com.	IN	A	1.2.3.5
> mydomain.com.	IN	CNAME	www.mydomain.com.

Nope. Standards don't allow CNAMEs to be used along with other resource
records. Why not the following (correct) configuration:

mydomain.com.      IN	A	1.2.3.5
www.mydomain.com.  IN	CNAME	mydomain.com.

Regards,
Beri


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