A or CNAME? 1

[skendrick]

Should I make the

http://www record

for my domain with an A record or a CNAME? I done a seach on google.com for an answer and I found one place that said I could use either one but the CNAME would require extra DNS lookup and would use more bandwidth. So which one is more efficient?

Thanks in advance,
Sterling

 

[neutec]

An 'A' or 'Address' record ties a domain name to an IP address. If there is a server on the Internet that is configured to handle traffic for this domain, you can enter the name of the domain domainname.net and the IP address of the server (for example '64.85.73.21') and your domain will point to that IP address.

Examples:
domainname.net A 64.85.73.21

http://www.8domainname.net

A 64.85.73.21


A 'CNAME' or 'Common Name' creates an alias from a domain name to another. For example, you can create a CNAME from 'subdomain.8domainname.net' to '

http://www.internet.com',

and every reference to 'subdomain.domainname.net' will go to '

http://www.internet.com',

regardless of how

http://www.internet.com

changes their IP addresses.
Please note that if you define a CNAME for one of your subdomains, there should be no A or MX record defined for that subdomain.

Examples:
8wire.net CNAME

http://www.internet.com

subdomain.domainname.net CNAME

http://www.internet.com

subdomain.domainname.net CNAME

http://www.domainname.net

You should just use an A record