Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:17:48 +0200 From: "Len Conrad" <lconrad@Go2France.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DNS Question Message-ID: <200910231717.AA243925902@mail.Go2France.com>
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> >All true, and I did not do a very good job of explaining it. My issue >was that we have requests to use a CNAME for the domain record. Such as >this. > >example.com CNAME otherdomain.com >www.example.com CNAME otherdomain.com > >I was taught this was not good form worse, it's illegal. , but allowed. I can deal with it. >But what of having a SOA record for example.com, no A or CNAME record >for the TLD example.com, only hosts such as www, ns1, ftp, etc. > >I tried it an it seems to work fine, but doesn't look proper to me. Then >again I remember when CNAME were considered evil. CNAMEs are still evil, unless 1) no other solution exists and 2) the user knows how to use CNAMEs (rare). Len
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