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Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?

From	Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
Newsgroups	comp.protocols.dns.bind
Subject	Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required?
Date	2020-07-09 22:25 -0600
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On 7/9/20 6:43 AM, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
> If you don't have an A record at the zone apex, the browser will not 
> get back any address and display an error message for the user.

There was a point in time when the big web browsers would try connecting 
to www.<domain>.<tld> if connecting to <domain>.<tld> failed.

I don't know what the current state of affairs is.

-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die

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Re: Dumb Question is an A or AAAA record required? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2020-07-09 22:25 -0600

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