what's the difference

Michael Voight mvoight at cisco.com
Sat Aug 28 02:03:07 UTC 1999


you can't create it... (well, you can with some tweaking of bind 8)
A CNAME must be a unique record. If you have a CNAME for subdomain, you
can have NO other records. Why would you do this?


Michael Voight


David wrote:
> 
> what is the difference in the following (I know what both an A and CNAME
> is); what effects could it have?
> domain.com. IN A 111.111.111.1
> 
> -----
> sub.domain.com. IN A 111.111.111.1
> sub.domain.com. IN CNAME domain.com.
> ---------
> 
>  Thanks
>   David


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