Prefixless domains

Simon Waters Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk
Wed Mar 20 00:36:37 UTC 2002


Sean Hamilton wrote:
> 
> Suppose I have three systems:
> 
> one    IN    A    1.2.3.1
> two    IN    A    1.2.3.2
> three  IN    A    1.2.3.3
> 
> These are now resolving one.mydomain.com, two.mydomain.com, and
> three.mydomain.com. Now, I make www a CNAME for two, etc etc... but how
> should I handle requests for "mydomain.com"?

Read the list archives ;)

CNAMEs are evil use A records.

mydomain.com. IN A 1.2.3.2
two	IN A 1.2.3.2

> It seems somewhat icky to make
> it an A record for the same address as two

If you insist alias "two" to "mydomain.com", but CNAMEs are evil
so you'll regret it in the end ;)


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