From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 12 16: 0:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jgl.reno.nv.us (rno-max5-02.gbis.net [207.228.61.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC41F37B50E for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 16:00:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by jgl.reno.nv.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA09518; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 16:00:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <032b01bf8c7f$1e0f07e0$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Doug Barton" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions List" Subject: Re: CNAME vs A records (clarification) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 16:00:16 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > There is no such concept as "alias" in DNS. Erase it from your mind. A >records point hostnames to IP addresses. CNAME records point hostnames >to other hostnames. Except for very rare and temporary cases you >shouldn't use CNAME's at all, especially if you don't really understand >all of the implications. So this is more proper? mydomain.com A 123.45.67.890 www.mydomain.com A 123.45.67.890 instead of: mydomain.com A 123.45.67.890 www.mydomain.com CNAME mydomain.com I've read the O'Reilly book, but am still fuzzy. What are "all of the implications" that might fubar you if you use CNAME's? Thanks, --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message