www a-record vs cname-record
- by Sorin Buturugeanu
Hi!
I have a website that I will be hosting DNS for (testing purposes at first and then it will have some limited traffic).
I have set up DNS so that site.tld has an A record to the actual IP but I don't know what to do about www.site.tld.
Both site.tld and www.site.tld will point to the same server / application so my logic tells me to add a cname record so that www.site.tld becomes an alias for site.tld,
BUT, I've been checking my settings with intodns.com and if I only add a CNAME for the www.site.tld it gives me the following error:
ERROR: I could not get any A records for www.cexa.ro!
(the error clears once I do an A record for www.site.tld to point to the actual IP)
I don't know if there is a "rule" that "www." should always be an A record even though it's actually pointing to the same IP / application.
Thanks for helping me understand this!