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Posted by chillipc, 08-17-2013, 09:44 AM
Hello, I was wondering what is the standard way of creating a bind zone for example example.com. IN A ipaddress www CNAME example.com or example.com. IN A ipaddress www IN A ipaddress when setting up my servers I always use this way example.com. IN A ipaddress www CNAME example.com is there any issues doing it that way?

Posted by kevincheri, 08-17-2013, 04:01 PM
No, both are correct unless you want WWW to serve a different page than the domain. Also the CNAME entry should be like, www IN CNAME example.com You can use intodns.com to check your DNS records set correctly.

Posted by net, 08-17-2013, 06:13 PM
Moved > Hosting Security and Technology.

Posted by ajonate, 08-18-2013, 11:52 AM
I do www as an A record. I don't use CNAME unless I'm doing a redirect.

Posted by DJMizt73, 08-19-2013, 04:31 PM
CNAMEs require two DNS lookup - if that matters to you. Unless you are load balancing your webserver into multiple IPs or doing a geolocation based serving ..its just more work for the DNS. Single IP'd host should just probably stick to A records.



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