CNAME or A record?

[Lightner, Jeff]

+1

All of our redirects are either done by rewrite rules in Apache or Jboss or on our load balancer.   We don’t do any in DNS.






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Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 10:43 AM
To: feralert
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Subject: Re: CNAME or A record?


this is the stuff what should be done by webserver rather than by DNS. i,e, Apache rewrite will do that.
在 2011-9-28 下午10:29，"feralert" <feralert at gmail.com<mailto:feralert at gmail.com>>写道：
> Hi all,
>
> I'm sure this has been asked trillions of times but since I couldn't
> find any concrete answer/reference in google I am asking you guys in
> this list. Sorry if anyone thinks this a dumb question or something
> very obvious.
>
> The thing is that i want users redirected to 'www.domain.com<http://www.domain.com>' even
> when they just type the domain name 'domain.com<http://domain.com>'.
> In order to do so I am not sure if its best to have one A RR for each
> or have an A RR for the domain and a CNAME RR pointing to 'domain.com<http://domain.com>'
> for 'www.domain.com<http://www.domain.com>'.
>
>
> domain.com<http://domain.com> A 1.1.1.1
> www.domain.com<http://www.domain.com> A 1.1.1.1
>
> OR
>
> domain.com<http://domain.com> A 1.1.1.1
> www.domain.com<http://www.domain.com> CNAME domain.com<http://domain.com>
>
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Fred
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