On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, erich wrote:
> Yes, its not too hard,, as Kieran pointed out, you use the CNAME resource
> record (RR) to make the name www.domain.com.au equivalent to the name
> domain.com.au. Although, usually, the actual name of the domain, is
> not normally the name of a host on your domain, then you can find the
> record
> domain.com.au CNAME webhost.domain.com.au
Do not do this, if you value your domain.
CNAME's are a little bit different than normal records in that once a
CNAME exists, no other type of record can also exist for that host.
This isn't normally a problem, since if you're adding an alias for a host,
it doesn't need any other records.
For a domain name, however, this is different. Adding the above entry
would wipe out any NS or MX records associated with this domain,
effectively causing it to not resolve.
A better way of doing this is something like:
domain.com.au. A 111.222.333.444
wwww CNAME domain.com.au.
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