Avoiding having a www A REC with BIND9

[Paul M]

Longman wrote:
> If you wish to have a domain resolve to the A rec IP of your www host
> (and your www host just be a CNAME of this), how would you accomplish
> this in BIND? The record can't go in the Zone file for your domain, as
> only the hosts/subdomains go in this file? So where does it go?  It
> seems to me that it would go at the REGISTRAR level, for they are the
> people that provide the 'glue records' for the nameserver addresses of
> the domains their servers refer you to, but a bit of googling hasn't
> really found much.



wouldn't this work?

@	IN	A	1.2.3.4
www	IN	CNAME	mydomain.com.





you definitely don't want to break your DNS by doing this:

@	IN	CNAME	www.mydomain.com.