should virtual hosts be defined as CNAME in DNS server?

Question

Apache doc regarding virtual hosts states:

Your server has a single IP address, and multiple aliases (CNAMES) point to this machine in DNS. You want to run a web server for www.example.com and www.example.org on this machine.

Am I right to assume that I can also bind two domains to this single IP address using A DNS records, instead of creating one A record and CNAME record for another domain pointing to the first domain? I mean that it won't affect Apache's functionality.

Answer 1

Correct. The browser passes the name it is requesting. It does not care what type of DNS record was used to resolve the name to an ip address.

I usually use Cnames though for the actual domain. and point it at an a record that just represents the ip. Just a way to organize things and make it easier in the future.