Any Way To Make Root A Record Point to CNAME?

[Pete Ehlke]

On Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 01:22:44 -0700, Will wrote:
>
>Normally if you want company.com and www.company.com to point to the same
>web site, you would have A records that might look like this in the zone
>file:
>
>    @    A    199.99.99.99
>    www    A    199.99.99.99
>
>Unfortunately our web site is done through a Yahoo CNAME, so our www record
>is:
>
>    www    CNAME    company.site.yahoo.net.
>
>If I try to set the root to the same I get major failures during zone
>transfers.   The failed line is:
>
>    @    CNAME    company.site.yahoo.net.
>
>I assume I have a syntax error here.     Is there any way to get the root
>domain to use a CNAME instead of an A record?
>
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