CNAME question

[John Wobus]

Brad knows what he's talking about, but I'll add one extra 
clarification only because I'm obsessive and the original query did 
quote the example as "mydomainname.com".  In a zone file for 
"mydomainname.com", if the origin remains at "mydomainname.com.", the 
following does what was asked for:

mydomainname.com.   IN   A   IP_ADDRESS
www    IN   CNAME   mydomainname.com.

In such a file, with such an origin, the following would assign a 
number to the name "mydomainname.mydomainname.com.", most likely not 
what you want:

mydomainname   IN   A   IP_ADDRESS



John Wobus




On Apr 11, 2005, at 11:58 AM, Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 8:56 AM -0700 2005-04-11, unix at edify.com wrote:
>
>>  : Thx, Brad. Would this mean, do I have to make any change on my 
>> webserver.
>>  I am assuming this should work below. Thx
>>
>>  Mydomainname  	IN 	A 	IP ADDRESS
>>  www			IN	CNAME Mydomainname
>
> 	That should work.  Of course, you'll also need to define
> nameservers (NS records) for your domain, and you'll probably also
> want to define mail servers (MX records).
>
> 	But as far as the web stuff is concerned, this should be all you need.
>
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