Search Again: Re: WWW and MX records: round TWO! From: Global Homes Webmaster Date: Sunday, September 28, 2003 Time: 3:07:13 pm On 09/28/03 at 17:52 -0400, m i l e s opined: > hoolahoops.com A www.hoolahoops.com The data part of an A record must be an IP address. What you want is hoolahoops.com. A 12.111.80.127 > www.hoolahoops.com A 12.111.80.127 <-- web server This is fine, and usually preferred, but it could also be a CNAME: www.hoolahoops.com. CNAME hoolahoops.com. as long as you keep in mind the limitations of CNAMEs. The hoolahoops.com. record cannot be a CNAME because CNAMEs can't have the same name as any other records. In this case, hoolahoops.com. is the zone name, so there are NS records and, presumably, an SOA record with that name. Also, don't forget the dots (.) at the end of fully qualified domain names (FQDNs). -- Christopher Bort | cbort@globalhomes.com Webmaster, Global Homes | webmaster@globalhomes.com <http://www.globalhomes.com/>

Messages In This Thread: Re: WWW and MX records: round TWO! by m i l e s on Sep 28, 2003 at 2:54:12 pm Re: WWW and MX records: round TWO! by Len Conrad on Sep 28, 2003 at 3:05:01 pm Re: WWW and MX records: round TWO! by Global Homes Webmaster on Sep 28, 2003 at 3:07:13 pm Re: WWW and MX records: round TWO! by Paul Willis on Sep 30, 2003 at 4:38:20 am