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  From: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx>
  To  : Trevor Nichols <trevor@ocdi.org>
  Date: 27 Jul 2001 09:19:20 +0930

Re: BIND question

On 27 Jul 2001 12:36:36 +0930, Trevor Nichols wrote:

[ ... ]

> ; now you can CNAME all your different hosts
> www                 1D IN CNAME mainbox
> ftp                 1D IN CNAME mainbox
> etc
> etc

CNAMEs aren't necessary here. You can use A records which, as John
Edwards pointed out, don't make your resolver perform 2 lookups.

   - andrew

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