Domain/Zone Setup Question...

Tom Jones tjones at acworld.com
Mon May 29 05:34:44 UTC 2006


OK, I thought this made sense but when I do a nslookup on example.com  
I get nothing. Am I missing something here?

Thanks,
tom

On May 28, 2006, at 6:20 PM, Tom Jones wrote:

> Ah, that makes sense...
>
> Thanks!
> tom
>
>
>
> On May 28, 2006, at 6:16 PM, Danny Mayer wrote:
>
>> Tom Jones wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I would like to know how to setup my domain so that if my web  
>>> site is
>>> www.example.com then apache would also answer http://example.com?
>>>
>>> I thought all I had to do is  ...
>>>
>>>
>>> $ORIGIN example.com.
>>> www			IN	CNAME		web.example.org
>>> example.com.	IN	CNAME		www.example.com
>>>
>>> Is this correct?
>>>
>>
>> No, you must never use CNAME at the domain level, it's illegal, see
>> RFC
>> 1034. Use this:
>>
>> $ORIGIN example.com.
>> www.example.com.	IN	CNAME		example.com
>> @			IN	A		1.2.3.4
>>
>>
>> Danny
>
>



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