[cobalt-users] Cnames leave me at sea

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Ahoy

> Does anyone have any idea why Cobalt would say
>not to use CNAMES and a couple of people on this list says it works for
>them?

Years ago, a Broadway director, commenting on method acting, once remarked:
"The problem with the method is the 'THE'."

This also applies to Cnames on the RaQ. For instance, I have two domains
here, let's say www.mouse.com and www.duck.org. In one case, I was able to
make mickey.mouse.com resolve at www.mouse.com simply by creating a user and
an A record. However, the exact same method failed to make donald.duck.org
resolve at www.duck.org. There, after trying every possible permutation, I
finally just slapped an .htaccess redirect in donald.duck's web directory.

That's why one person says it works if you do it THE way I did and the next
says no you have to do it THE way Cobalt says and the third says .....

Because it's frikkin buggy, is why.

Aloha and Melly Kalikimakee
Davis