Re: [cobalt-developers] DNS Question

[Atif Ghaffar <atif@xxxxxxxxx>]

*	IN	A	someIP
or
*	IN	CNAME	somename.

For more info
http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/January2000/article129.html

Kevin D wrote:
> 
> Not sure I fully understand here, but for DNS entries you need to have a
> separate A record for every blah.domain.com entry. The basic A record tells
> the DNS server what IP blah.domain.com is on. Now, you could probably use a
> CNAME record for each blah.domain.com instead, and point blah.domain.com to
> www.domain.com or something like that, but what would you really be saving
> (besides having to change the IP address in 50 places if your IP address
> changes) ? You would still need an entry for each blah.domain.com.
> 
> Besides that, I am told that CNAME records should be avoided (for logging
> reasons).
> 
> Kevin
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Darpa" <jdarpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 9:15 AM
> Subject: [cobalt-developers] DNS Question
> 
> > Is there a way for example if I have a domain.  www.domain.com or
> domain.com
> > to have all domains with the domain.com to point to a IP address?
> >
> > for example Right now I have this in my DNS and everytime I get a new site
> > on this domain I have to add a DNS entry
> >
> > www.domain.com
> > site1.domain.com
> > site2.domain.com
> > ...
> >
> > I have over 50 of these.. Is there a way to tell them all to go to the
> same
> > IP?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Jason
> >
> >
> >
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