>having to specify the "www." isn't all that silly.
But it's mostly counterproductive. www.domain.com and domain.com A
records both return the the same ip, WTF else do you want to at port
80 of that ip?
Having an A record lookup of www and domain.com return different ip's
serves what purpose? esp when it has become fairly conventional that
public internet web service be there?
>... what if a site is also
>running an ftp server gopher server, etc. for a domain.... then you'd want
>to force the www
No "you" wouldn't.
I run serv-U on machine that also has www.domain.com and domain.com
resolving to the same ip.
I ftp to www.domain.com and domain.com and serv-U answers at port 21
of that ip just fine.
It is always advisable, even for one ip initially, to use a different
hostname for each service:
$ORIGIN domain.com.
@ A ip.ad.re.ss
www A ip.ad.re.ss
; the above two are customarily welded
ftp A ip.ad.re.ss
pop A ip.ad.re.ss
mail A ip.ad.re.ss
smtp A ip.ad.re.ss
webmail A ip.ad.re.ss
gopher A ip.ad.re.ss
When you get bigger and move the services to separate machines (eg.,
the mail-related services), you only have to change the ip address,
not add/change hostnames:
@ A ip.ad.re.ss
www A ip.ad.re.ss
ftp A ip.ad.re.ss
;
pop A ip.ad.re.s2
mail A ip.ad.re.s2
smtp A ip.ad.re.s2
webmail A ip.ad.re.s3
;
gopher A ip.ad.re.s4
Len
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