On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 01:24:31PM -0400, John R. Ackermann N8UR wrote: >--On Friday, October 03, 2003 11:11 AM -0500 Rod Rodolico ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Just set an A record to foo.net >> >>The way I do it is probably incorrect (nslint complains) but I set an A >>record to foo.net and to www.foo.net, then set everything else up as >>cnames. >> >>foo.net. IN A 1.2.3.4 >>www.foo.net. IN A 1.2.3.4 >>ftp.foo.net. IN CNAME www.foo.net. >>mail.foo.net. IN CNAME www.foo.net. > >I had to do something similar for my nameserver, which is foo.com. My >registrar wouldn't let me register a nameserver that was the same as the >domain name, so I ended up creating a second A record for ns1.foo.com. I >understand that in theory you're not supposed to have two A records >pointing to the same IP address, but it seems to be sometimes unavoidable.
why would you not want multiple A records? every time a client does a lookup and finds a CNAME they have to do another query for the A record. // George -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 646-331-2027 <IXOYE>< Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multimedia, DB, DNS and Metrics. http://www.galis.org/george -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
