use www and not

[Barry Margolin]

In article <93596e$172 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,  <bhorstkotte at my-deja.com> wrote:
>
>> No, it doesn't look right.  A name can't have both CNAME and other
>> records.  Since communityvista.com has to have SOA and NS records,
>> it can't also have a CNAME record.  If you want this to work,
>> you'll have to use an A record with the same address as
>> cv.dtdns.net.  If dtdns.net is a dynamic DNS service, you can't
>> do what you want just with DNS.
>
>Thanks for the response - but I did it this way yesterday, and it's
>working fine (although it could be "breaking the rules") :D

Was your secondary nameserver able to transfer the zone?  I suspect not.

And even if it could, this type of thing can result in transient failures
due to the way caching servers work.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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