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

John Navas jnavas at aimnet.com
Wed Jun 16 01:08:01 UTC 1999


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Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> wrote:

>Michael Voight <mvoight at cisco.com> writes:
>
>> In the zone file for domain.com.
>> 
>> domain.com. in cname www.domain.com.
>> 
>
>I hate to see this recommendation, although it does what the user
>asked. It also may break other things...like e-mail.
>
>I recommend:
>domain.com A "IP address of www.domain.com"
>
>This will allow MX records for domain.com to continue to work. It also 
>does not preempt the addition of other types of RR for domain.com like 
>a CNAME does.


Agreed!

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



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