CNAME for main domain

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> At 07:58 PM 11/27/02, Mark.Andrews at isc.org wrote:
> >         The "www" convention came well after HTTP was invented.
> 
> True. TBL invented HTTP around 1989-1990. People were starting
> to use the www convention for HTTP servers in 1993-1994. Before
> that people just put up servers on any machine and referenced that.
> It was years after that that people start to add A records to the
> apex of the domain so that people didn't have to type in the www
> part. I don't think it was common to do so before that.
> 
> Danny
> 

	A records at the apex of the zone were common to handle non
	MX aware MTA's.  People just stopped accommodating broken
	MTA's.

	Mark
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