CNAME or A record?

[Lightner, Jeff]

What you responded to below was simply my agreement that one doesn't use DNS for web "redirects".   I didn't suggest he doesn't still need two records to get their in the first place.

I should think it was clear from my original post in the thread that I was saying he should have two records and that my preference was A records.

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of WBrown at e1b.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 7:17 PM
To: Lightner, Jeff
Cc: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: RE: CNAME or A record?

All true, but if you don't have some sort of DNS record for both 
example.com and www.example.com, then all the rewrite rules in the world 
won't help.

For all we know, the web server doesn't care what the URL is since it is 
the only site hosted on that server and answers to all GETs.

Jeff wrote on 09/28/2011 10:51:08 AM:

> +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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org [
> mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org] On Behalf 
Of ??
> Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 10:43 AM
> To: feralert
> Cc: bind-users at isc.org
> 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>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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