[geeks] simple DNS / nslookup question

[der Mouse]

> [I] did not know you could register A records for a domain only.

Yes, any node in the DNS can have records of any type.  (Well, except
for administrative restrictions; for example, com. does not have any A
records, but not because of DNS restrictions.)

> Honestly, i cannot think of a reason why i would do so, but i guess i
> cannot hurt.

I suspect it's mostly done so that http://example.com/ works just as
well as http://www.example.com/ does.

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