Article 11066 at 07/11/03 07:39:33 From: reginaldvw (at mark) gmail.com Subject: [coba-e:11066] Server admin - System Settings - TCP/IP

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Date:  Fri, 2 Nov 2007 23:39:27 +0100
From:  Reg <reginaldvw (at mark) gmail.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:11066] Server admin - System Settings - TCP/IP - Host and Domain Name
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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In Server admin - System Settings - TCP/IP - Host and Domain Name you
can set a server host name and domain name, e.g.:

anyname   .    example.com

My question is: do you have to create an A record for
anyname.example.com and point it to the server IP? I always do but why
is that actually?