[Gllug] DNS CNAME usage.

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 01:10:29PM +0000, Stephen Harker wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Does anyone have an opinion about CNAME usage and using a CNAME record 
> to refer to a canonical name that is not part of the current domain and 
> whether there should be problems associated with this?
> 
> For instance.
> 
> www.foo.com	IN	CNAME	foo.bar.com

It should work, but it means that the name that appears in the browser location
bar is different from what they typed in.

Why not do the following and set apache up so that it is a virtual host ?

	www.foo.com	IN	A       10.4.78.22

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