Automatically CNAME alias subdomain to domain

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I don't entirely understand the web's obsession with 'www', but accepting it, for any given web-related DNS request I usually make a point of registering both 'sub.domain.tld' and 'www.sub.domain.tld'. But we end up manually creating CNAMES every time. To make matters worse, we have a somewhat fouled-up DNS setup (working on it!) and so we have to make DNS changes on both a Windows Domain Controller and on a Time-Warner Business Class web interface. Is it possible that there is some way we can have www.anything-in-our-domain always CNAME to its immediate parent domain? If not, will that ever be possible?

How many domains are you talking about? – Mark Wagner Mar 02 '11 at 20:40 — Mark Wagner, Mar 02 '11 at 20:40

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 02 '11 at 20:05

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You should look into using wildcard DNS entries.

http://ma.tt/2003/10/wildcard-dns-and-sub-domains/

answered Mar 02 '11 at 20:05

Matt Beckman

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Automatically CNAME alias subdomain to domain

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