Setting up Internal DNS server

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9up0l3$sro at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Kevin Darcy  <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
>Enter "www.mydomain.com" into the "mydomain.com" zone file, resolving to an
>address. In the same zone file, enter "mail.mydomain.com", resolving to some
>other address. That's about all you can with BIND or DNS. How clients access
>those servers once they discover their addresses, is beyond the scope of
>BIND or DNS.

Why do you recommend using A records instead of CNAME records, like I wrote
yesterday?

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