DNS alias
 

Hi
For year lookups to my webserver worked properly using

www IN CNAME pluto.mydomain.com.

I've been asked to 'modernize' it by allowing access without one having to enter the 'www' in their browser. So I added - (or tried to) add an alias as follows:


mydomain IN CNAME pluto.mydomain.com.
www IN CNAME pluto.mydomain.com.

I changed the serial number and stop/start named. This seemed to work, but only for some! It worked right away from home and from another location/DNS server. But access using 'mydomain.com' does not work from some others. It has been now 24 hrs since I restarted named with the new serial number.

I did not change the reverse zone nor restart it. Should I?
I this how an alias should be used to accomplish this?

Your help and advice will be greatly appreciated.

Zapo

the best way is create "A record" to respond to the both www or-and w/o www
for me i stay away from cname

Thank you for the quick reply. For the A record without the 'www' should I just put the domain name without the '.com'?
Zapo

see my zone config sample "pri.noc.net.my"

http://unixman.noc.net.my/src/frame/contents_02_02.html

@OP

Except from the dns part, you have also to create an alias for your web server, so it can respond to both http://www.domain.com and http://domain.com

Regards

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