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Question "What does @ mean in an A record", by Peng X.

I saw something like this in Zone file customization:

Name Type Data Priority TTL

@ A 123.123.123.123

What does @ sand for here?

Answer, by Miguel R.

As far as I know it stands for your domain. e.g. if your domain is: mydom.com then @ = mydom.com

So in your example, if i do a dnslookup on mydom.com i would get the answer 123.123.123.123

Answer, by Michael M. (Gandi)

Miguel is correct. @ records stand for the bare domain.

"@ A 123.123.123.123" would be for mydom.com while "www A 123.123.123.123" would be for www.mydom.com

Last modified: 27 Dec 2010 at 20:10 by Michael M. (Gandi)