CNAME question

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Mon Apr 11 15:46:21 UTC 2005


At 7:38 AM -0700 2005-04-11, unix at edify.com wrote:

>  www                IN         A               IP address
>  mydomainname       IN         CNAME            www

	You need to do this the other way around.  The domain name needs 
to resolve to the IP address (among other things), and "www" can be a 
CNAME alias pointing to the domain name.  That will work.

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