While we are on the subject of named...

[Chong Yu Meng]

A. Khattri wrote:

>On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Chong Yu Meng wrote
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>>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.
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>A CNAME is like an alias while an A record is the "real" record.
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>Often you will see something like this in a BIND zone file:
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>domain.com		IN	A	1.2.3.4
>www.domain.com		IN	CNAME	domain.com
>ftp.domain.com		IN	CNAME	domain.com
>webmail.domain.com	IN	CNAME	domain.com
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>(So www., ftp., and webmail. are just aliases to domain.com)
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Here's what I've got
domainabc.com         IN   A   123.12.3.4
www                            IN   A   123.12.3.4
mail                             IN   A    123.12.3.4
apps                            IN   A     123.12.3.4

I changed all the records from CNAME to A.

As you can see, they all point to the same machine. I'm not sure if this 
syntax is "legal" or not.

I asked a friend who lives in the country where the server is co-located 
and he can get very fast response. I have checked on the access log, and 
this fast response is corroborated. But it is strange that in Singapore, 
where I live, the response is terribly slow!!

The application, which does not belong to me, does a re-direct. Not sure 
why it has to do that either.

Regards,
pascal chong