Proper use of CNAME

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Mon Sep 19 21:23:36 UTC 2005


At 7:33 AM -0700 2005-09-19, dwok wrote:

>  companyname1.com CNAME www.companyname.com
>
>  companyname1.net CNAME www.companyname.com
>  companyname2.com CNAME www.companyname.com
>  companyname2.net CNAME www.companyname.com
>
>    Is this the correct use of a CNAME record? Thank you in advance for
>  any advice or suggestions.

	No, you can't do it this way.  You have to do it the other way around.

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