From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 12 11:34:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from retribution.net (retribution.net [207.96.1.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E11EF37BD0E for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 11:34:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjoseff@hellenco.com) Received: from retribution.net (mjoseff@retribution.net [207.96.1.17]) by retribution.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA19237 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 14:37:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 14:37:52 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew Joseff X-Sender: mjoseff@retribution.net To: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: CNAME vs A records (clarification) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Can someone correct and/or confirm my understanding of CNAME vs A records: CNAME should be used for a host that exists on (potentially) another server but uses that domain. A records should be used as an alias for a host but co-exists with other hosts. So: www IN A (IP address) foo IN A (same IP as www) bar IN CNAME (some other IP or hostname) etc IN A (bar's hostname) So in this case, bar should be the only one out of the four that has a reverse entry? I think I'm confusing myself. -- Matthew Joseff | #!/bin/sh www.hellenco.com | echo "What's your username again?" mjoseff@hellenco.com | read LUSER | rm -rf /home/$LUSER To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message