CNAME or A record?

Ben Croswell ben.croswell at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 14:58:01 UTC 2011


That makes no sense.

If he didn't have a dns entry for both sites, how does the user get to site
without the dns entry to be rewritten by Apache?

-Ben Croswell
On Sep 28, 2011 10:52 AM, "风河" <shorttag at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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>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' even
>> when they just type the domain name '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'
>> for 'www.domain.com'.
>>
>>
>> domain.com A 1.1.1.1
>> www.domain.com A 1.1.1.1
>>
>> OR
>>
>> domain.com A 1.1.1.1
>> www.domain.com CNAME domain.com
>>
>>
>> Any help appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Fred
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