I haven't found it yet. I'm pretty sure the discussion against it was in O'Reilly's "TCP/IP Network Administration". I've browsed through it in my spare time and didn't find it. The worst problem with this is when users don't know you, say FTP server's address and give domain.tld a whirl. It might work. A few months later you might remove that record or make a change that breaks it. You never advertised the FTP that way. You always advertised ftp.domain.tld so you didn't expect one of your users to be using domain.tld. You make the change. Boom, they break. They call you or the helpdesk and you spend an hour or two trying to figure out why they've been able to FTP for the past 5 months but suddenly today it stopped working. You assume it's because of the new server you set up. You're partially right but looking in the wrong place. :)
I had this problem at a place I consult for. They advertised everything as domain.tld. When we needed to move the mail server elsewhere, we had a couple thousand users to contact and have change their POP/IMAP/SMTP settings. If it had been done right the first time, we'd have saved a few weeks work. Justin On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Steve Thomas wrote: > | IIRC, I recall an arguement that strongly says you aren't supposed to put > | an A on a domain. I forget what the main reasons were though. > > I'd be interested in finding out. I typically put an A record on > 'domain.tld', then CNAME the 'www' host to it. That way, a person can type > "domain.tld" or "www.domain.tld" into their browser and still reach the same > site. (It's a pet peeve of mine to *have* to type in "www" to reach a > website.) Mail almost always goes to a different server. > > St- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
