On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 05:10:13PM +0100, Marko Cupa?? wrote: > On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:48:13 -0500 > Ted Unangst <[email protected]> wrote: > > > openbsd.org does not have an A record. This should not affect you. > > This is strange. I think I was able to access www.openbsd.org via http > on openbsd.org as well.
It is common for modern browser to automatically try www.CURRENTDOMAINTRIED when CURRENTDOMAINTRIED doesn't have a A or AAAA address. It's a browser feature. openbsd.org doesn't have a CNAME record. CNAME record are dangerous. They invalidate every other DNS record type associated with that entry. (That's why you usually add a A record to a domain name so that all the SOA, NS, MX records don't get affected.)
