Virtual Hosts don't work with "www"

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at center.osis.gov
Tue Feb 27 00:20:11 UTC 2007


On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 12:43:02AM +0100, Jarek Buczy?ski wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have problem with "www", I configured virtual hosts (in this example two
> host1, host2)
...
> $ORIGIN domain.edu.
...
> ftp     CNAME   jupiter
> www     CNAME   @
...


The last line above will always fail.

"@" is meaningful in the left position, not the right.

You need to say:

www	CNAME	domain.edu.

And, contrary to what someone said, there is nothing really wrong with
that.  Although I also prefer the style of using "A" records.  Well-
commented!


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Joe Yao
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