domain name entries in a zone

[David Botham]

bind-users-bounce at isc.org wrote on 05/31/2004 10:53:43 AM:
> In article <c981ne$okj$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Simon Waters
> <Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > But A records for the domain are common, the "www" was a silly 
convention.
> 
> I beg to differ.  Perhaps the WWW will remain the One True Net App and

The "www" that that is referenced as being silly does not refer to Web 
Servers (httpd).  It refers to the common practice of using www as a 
prefix for a domain name to indicate that the service associated with the 
domain name is a web server.  Obviously you could have a web server with a 
domain name of lskdjflkdsjlkfs.foo.com.  The domain name and the service 
have *nothing* to do with each other.  BTW, I am not say I agree or 
disagree with the opinion of the original poster, however, I thought that 
making the destinction might be important.


hth,

Dave...


> all other services will inherit MX/SRV-style application specific
> redirection, but it seems unlikely.  Until then it remains sensible to
> retain a service tag of some sort in domain names. 
> 
> Sam
>