Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
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>

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>
>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




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200910231717.AA243925902>