While we are on the subject of named...

[Chong Yu Meng]

Hi all,

I have a couple of questions, but first, let me setup the scenario. I've 
got one co-located server that I am trying to use for 
mail/DNS/web/application. I've got only 1 IP address. I have "A" record 
for "www" and CNAME for "apps". Both "apps" and "www" are name-based 
virtual servers. Here's my problem:

For "apps", I have to do some re-direction to a different location on my 
filesystem. This re-direction takes a very, very long time, sometimes up 
to 3 minutes to load a page. For "www", which uses no re-direction, the 
page loads very fast.

My question: what is the difference between an "A" record and a "CNAME" 
record, and could this be the reason why it takes so long to load the 
page? CPU and memory utilization do not change significantly, and when I 
do a "tail -f" of the Apache log file, it sometimes shows that a request 
has been processed, but nothing shows up on my browser.

Thanks in advance,

pascal chong