Re: possible noob question - @ CNAME?

2009-02-08 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , RJValenta writes: > forever ago, i set myself up with a solid bandwidth and static IPs and > started to host websites for my friends & their small businesses. > basically, they covered the cost of my internet access. > > so for 10 years i've been hosting my own name, mail, and web s

Re: possible noob question - @ CNAME?

2009-02-08 Thread Ben Croswell
You can not have a CNAME at the "domain" level. It is against RFC to have a CNAME and any other data at the same level of a given domain tree. i.e. the following is illegal wwwin CNAME www.blah.com wwwin MX 10 mail.blah.com This will cause BIND to throw the zone and not load it because it

possible noob question - @ CNAME?

2009-02-08 Thread RJValenta
forever ago, i set myself up with a solid bandwidth and static IPs and started to host websites for my friends & their small businesses. basically, they covered the cost of my internet access. so for 10 years i've been hosting my own name, mail, and web servers allowing me to '@ A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'