how to allow domain.com as well as www.domain.com ?

[Cricket Liu]

Michael Voight <mvoight at cisco.com> wrote in message
news:<37669609.57412127 at cisco.com>...
> In the zone file for domain.com.
>
> domain.com. in cname www.domain.com.

You can't do this.  domain.com already has an SOA record and at least one NS
record, so adding a CNAME record for it is illegal.

The only way to do this is

domain.com.    IN    CNAME    <address of www.domain.com>

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