I have a domain, flyh2.com.  I use a CNAME to forward www.flyh2.com to flyh2.elasticbeanstalk.com where my web site is hosted. This is the only way Amazon allows custom domain names. A records aren't allowed.  I'd like people to simply type  (without the www) and still have visitors see my web site.  Originally I used CNAME to forward both the naked and the www records to my web site, but it seemed to cause problems.  Incoming mail was being returned to sender:  Fwd: Returned mail: see transcript for details &lt;mark@flyh2.com&gt;... Deferred: Connection timed out with flyh2.elasticbeanstalk.com. Message could not be delivered for 6 hours Message will be deleted from queue   Seems that the CNAME on the naked domain was overriding the MX records.  Now I've changed the CNAME on the flyh2.com record to point to www.flyh2.com and in turn www.flyh2.com to CNAME to flyh2.elasticbeanstalk.com.  My MX records are set up correctly, but the CNAME on the naked domain seems to override them. Do I have to use an A record?
This is a  about CNAMEs at the apices (or roots) of zones   It's relatively common knowledge that CNAME records at the apex of a domain are a taboo practice.  Example: example.com. IN CNAME ithurts.example.net.  In a best case scenario nameserver software might refuse to load the configuration, and in the worst case it might accept this configuration and invalidate the configuration for example.com.  Recently I had a webhosting company pass instructions to a business unit that we needed to CNAME the apex of our domain to a new record. Knowing that this would be a suicide config when fed to BIND, I advised them that we would not be able to comply and that this was bunk advice in general. The webhosting company took the stance that it is not outright forbidden by standard defining RFCs and that their software supports it. If we could not CNAME the apex, their advice was to have no apex record at all and they would not provide a redirecting webserver. ...What?  Most of us know that  insists that A CNAME record is not allowed to coexist with any other data., but let's be honest with ourselves here, that RFC is only Informational. The closest I know to verbiage that forbids the practice is from :     If a CNAME RR is present at a node, no other data should be   present; this ensures that the data for a canonical name and its aliases   cannot be different.   Unfortunately I've been in the industry long enough to know that "should not" is not the same as "must not", and that's enough rope for most software designers to hang themselves with. Knowing that anything short of a concise link to a slam dunk would be a waste of my time, I ended up letting the company get away with a scolding for recommending configurations that could break commonly used software without proper disclosure.  This brings us to the Q&amp;A. For once I'd like us to get really technical about the insanity of apex CNAMEs, and not skirt around the issue like we usually do when someone posts on the subject.  is off limits, as are any other Informational RFC applicable here that I didn't think of. Let's shut this baby down.
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The point is that we usually define, based on experiments, that the force felt by a moving charge on the presence of a magnetic field is $\mathbf {F} = q\mathbf{v}\times \mathbf{B}$, but in that case the magnetic field is usually left to be defined later.   Now can that force law be used in some way to obtain Biot-Savart law like we obtain the equation for the electric field directly from Coulomb's Force law?  I wanted to know that because as pointed out in the question I've mentioned, although Maxwell's Equations can be considered more fundamental, those equations are obtained after we know Coulomb's and Biot-Savart's laws, so if we start with Maxwell's Equations to obtain Biot-Savart's having use it to find Maxwell's Equations then I think we'll fall into a circular argument.   In that case, without recoursing to Maxwell's Equations the only way to obtain Biot-Savart's law is through observations or can it be derived somehow? 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I have uploaded a photo with the PRL Data extension Can we use media9 to show a video on a PDF but the video is not embedded to the PDF? I have video tutorials that I want to show in my presentation with beamer class. I don't want the video files get embedded to the PDF because they will make the PDF size very very huge.  If you know how the videos can be played on the HTML with a reference rather than embedding the video file to the HTML file, I want something like this to be applied to my PDF presentation. I just want to reference the video URL from my PDF presentation.   Shortly speaking, can we use media9 to show a video on a PDF but the video is not embedded to the PDF?  Uploading those videos to a web server might be difficult for me because internet connection is very slow and sometimes not available in the presentation room. :-) To find minimum distance between two curves What is the difference between a field and a property? In C#, what makes a field different from a property, and when should a field be used instead of a property?