Generic Zone File??

[Chip Old]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Bill Larson wrote:

> General question relating to this setup:
>
> The RR for "www" could be an "A" record rather than a CNAME.  Is there
> any major advantage to using one or the other for this purpose?
> Using a CNAME makes changing the server address easier, but will
> require two DNS queries.  Anything else?

Both ways work, and aside from the double query issue when CNAMEs are used
I'm not aware of any functional difference.  However I still prefer to use
CNAMEs, for no other reason than to me it seems more logical and orderly.

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