how to allow domain.com as well as www.domain.com ?

John Navas jnavas at aimnet.com
Wed Jun 16 01:09:32 UTC 1999


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Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:

>	This won't work as domain.com is a delegated zone and hence
>	the CNAME and OTHER rules come into play.
>
>	You need to add a A record at the to of the zone with the same
>	IP address as www.domain.com.  You can then, if you want, make
>	www.domain.com a CNAME that points to domain.com.
>
>	domain.com.	IN A	 XX.XX.XX.XX
>	www.domain.com. IN CNAME domain.com.

I agree that this is the preferred method.  In fact, it's what I use.

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John  mailto:jnavas at aimnet.com  http://www.aimnet.com/~jnavas/



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