[geeks] simple DNS / nslookup question

[der Mouse]

>>> Honestly, i cannot think of a reason why i would [give a
>>> registration point domain an A record], 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.
> For myself, I could never figure out what was the reasoning behind
> disallowing domain roots from having CNAME records.

Because it does not work sanely for a node with a CNAME to have any
other RRs, and "domain roots" are always zone cutpoints and hence have,
at a minimum, NS and SOA records.

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