What is the difference??!!

[Brad Knowles]

At 9:11 AM +0300 2005-05-03, Dani Al-Hasan wrote:

>   Create a CNAME   as :
>  Web.example.com.	IN	CNAME	www.example.com.
>
>  OR
>
>   Create a A resource record as:
>  Web.example.com.	IN	A	1.2.3.4

	Either of these solutions will work.  Using the CNAME record will 
give you the advantage that if the IP address for www.example.com 
needs to change, you won't also be forced to change the IP address 
for web.example.com -- the CNAME alias would remain the same.

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