> On Mar 1, 2014, at 3:21 AM, Hugo Villeneuve <h...@eintr.net> wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 05:10:13PM +0100, Marko Cupa?? wrote: >> On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 10:48:13 -0500 >> Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote: >> >>> openbsd.org does not have an A record. This should not affect you. >> >> This is strange. I think I was able to access www.openbsd.org via http >> on openbsd.org as well. > > It is common for modern browser to automatically try www.CURRENTDOMAINTRIED > when CURRENTDOMAINTRIED doesn't have a A or AAAA address. It's a > browser feature.
And a terrible idea IMHO. > > > openbsd.org doesn't have a CNAME record. CNAME record are dangerous. Cannes themselves are not dangerous, however when being used for the "root" of a domain is _usually_ a bad idea just for the reasons you mentioned below. > They invalidate every other DNS record type associated with that > entry. (That's why you usually add a A record to a domain name so > that all the SOA, NS, MX records don't get affected.) > Regards, - Josh Smith KD8HRX
