Anand Kumria wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 12:41:57PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote:
> > Peter Faulks wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:57:58 +1000, Graeme Robinson wrote:
> > >
> > > >if you tell us what mailserver software you are using someone here might be
> > > >able to help you configure it.
> > >
> > > I think my first problem is to configure bind properly.
> > >
> > > I can't work out what should be 'A' records and what should be 'CNAME' records.
> >
> > In my named.woa for the woa.com.au domain, I have
> >
> > eagle A 192.168.27.1
> > dns CNAME eagle
> > ns CNAME eagle
> > nameserver CNAME eagle
>
> None of those three are good ideas. It means that machines attempting a lookup
> perform the opertation twice. Once to get a reference (CNAME) and once again
> to get eagle's address.
Isn't that in the nature of CNAME'ing anyway.
What is good and what is bad really depends on the situation.
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