A -vs- CNAME

S0LARlSTEK at aol.com S0LARlSTEK at aol.com
Thu Oct 14 18:57:58 UTC 1999


There are a couple examples for you.

In one instance you want your secondary DNS server to update.

You can't have an "A" record and a "SOA" record with the same domain and have 
the secondary name server update correctly.  If you are trying to save time 
by using cnames instead of IP addresses well guess what use A records.

If you are using sendmail you still do not need "CNAME" records.  If your 
mail server is bimbo.server.com then you should have an "A" record for the 
the mail server.  Lets say you have bonehead.com your MX records for 
bonehead.com should look like this.

bonehead.com.       IN MX   10 bimbo.server.com.

Greg 


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