Does "@" in CNAME record not work?

Cricket Liu cricket at nxdomain.com
Fri Jul 13 01:38:38 UTC 2001


> >         mydomain.com            SOA ...
> >         mydomain.com            NS ns1.mydomain.com
> >         mydomain.com            A 192.168.0.4  ; must be an A record
> >         ns1.mydomain.com        A 192.168.0.4  ; must be an A record
> >         www.mydomain.com        CNAME mydomain.com
> 
> Doesn't that bring me back to the problem pointed out in the Bind/DNS
> book (3rd edition, pgs. 64-65)?

Why is that a problem?  Why would you want mail addressed
to user at mydomain.com to canonicalize to user at www.mydomain.com?
Having mail addressed to user at www.mydomain.com canonicalize to
user at mydomain.com makes some sense, though.

cricket



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