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Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

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Subject Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?
Date Thu, 9 Jul 2020 06:21:55 -0600
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Given a domain that is hosted and used for email and web, is an A record for that domain actually required?

That is, if bob.tld is hosted by example.com can you simply have

	NS ns1.example.com
	NS ns2.example.com
	MX mx.example.com

www	CNAME www.example.com

Without specifying 

	A 11.22.33.444

(I am pretty sure this is *technically* allowed, but is it really OK to do or are there reasons not to do this?)



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