can @ be CNAME?

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Tue Nov 23 07:58:19 UTC 2010


On 23.11.10 15:50, Tech W. wrote:
> can I set @ to a cname type? like:
> 
> @  IN  CNAME  www.example.com.

Certainly not. for a domain you have you need SOA and NS records, and CNAME
is incompatible with both of them.

OF course you can do

$ORIGIN new.example.com.
@	IN	CNAME	www.example.com.

but that's apparently not your case
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