secondary.com gone! any free secondary NS service?

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Sun Oct 27 00:05:01 UTC 2002


At 01:34 PM 10/24/02, Michael Niksch wrote:

> > it just makes it pretty much useless.
>
>Though I have never used wildcard CNAMEs, I suppose they are very
>useful if you run a web hosting service that offers names like
>
>   bob.example.com
>   jim.example.com
>   joe.example.com
>
>which are all to be served as virtual servers by the same Apache
>server. If you have a wildcard CNAME like
>
>   *.example.com. IN CNAME www.example.com.
>
>you need to add new customers like sue.example.com only to the Apache
>configuration, while the DNS is already there.

It makes more sense to use an A record here. You don't need a CNAME
record.

Danny

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