use www and not

[Barry Margolin]

In article <932q0o$74k at pub3.rc.vix.com>,  <bhorstkotte at my-deja.com> wrote:
>For the case of using CNAMEs (which I must, since I'm hosting on a
>dynamic IP using dtdns), does this look right?  Specifically the part
>about getting communityvista.com to work - www.communityvista.com has
>been working fine before adding the "wildcard" record (I'm unsure of
>how to do it - blank entry, or *, or @, or ??)

No, it doesn't look right.  A name can't have both CNAME and other
records.  Since communityvista.com has to have SOA and NS records, it can't
also have a CNAME record.  If you want this to work, you'll have to use an
A record with the same address as cv.dtdns.net.  If dtdns.net is a dynamic
DNS service, you can't do what you want just with DNS.  You could do it
with an HTTP redirect service; point communityvista.com to the IP of the
forwarding server, and have it redirect http://communityvista.com/anything
to http://www.communityvista.com/anything.

>
>Thanks in advance - Brad
>
>-----
>
>@  86400 IN SOA ns1.centralinfo.net. hostmaster.communityvista.com. (
>            2001010414   ; serial number
>            21600   ; refresh
>            10800   ; retry
>            604800   ; expire
>            600)  ; ttl
>@  600 IN NS  ns1.centralinfo.net.
>@  600 IN NS  ns2.centralinfo.net.
> 600 CNAME cv.dtdns.net. ; EXTREF.
>www 600 CNAME cv.dtdns.net. ; EXTREF.
>mail 600 CNAME cv.dtdns.net. ; EXTREF.
>@ 600 MX 0 mail.communityvista.com.
>
>-----
>
>  "Dave Anderson" <nospam at unixhome.net> wrote:
>> Enter both records as a "A" record.  You could use CNAMEs,
>> but you should do so only after reading DNS/Bind by O'Reilly.
>>
>
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