From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 4 11:31:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from workhorse.iMach.com (workhorse.iMach.com [206.127.77.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9202F37B426 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 11:30:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (forrestc@localhost) by workhorse.iMach.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA27638; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 12:26:12 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 12:26:12 -0700 (MST) From: "Forrest W. Christian" To: Pete Fritchman Cc: Leif Neland , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OT: cname for domain In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org My previous message was obviously unclear.... On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Forrest W. Christian wrote: > I generally will do a: > > www cname @ > > and list the a record with the IP address of the web server. My zone file looks something like: @ IN SOA ..... IN NS ns1.domain.com. IN NS ns2.domain.com. IN A 1.2.3.4 IN MX mail.domain.com. WWW IN CNAME @ -- In fact, if you use the zone file basically as listed above, you can use the same file for multiple domains pointing at the same location. You do end up with multiple hosts pointing toward the same address. I haven't seen this as a problem with web traffic... - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) AC7DE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Innovation Machine Ltd. P.O. Box 5749 http://www.imach.com/ Helena, MT 59604 Home of PacketFlux Technogies and BackupDNS.com (406)-442-6648 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect your personal freedoms - visit http://www.lp.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message