how domain.com to www.domain.com
Harold Pritchett
harold at uga.edu
Sat May 26 13:31:21 UTC 2001
Jan wrote:
>
> > how to configure that when people type "domain.com" , the bind
> > translate it to "www.domain.com"??
>
> hi,
>
> same question was answered (for me...) a few days ago. You might want to
> search the archive...
>
> Anyways, in your master zone definition file, put this line:
> domain.com. IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>
> Where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the ip of your www server. Be sure the www server
> (Apache?) has a virtual host for domain.com
>
> This works fine for me with Bind 9.1.2 and Apache 1.3.19.
>
> I was also wondering - anybody knows - can the above line point to a CNAME
> instead of pointing to an ip?
No. There are other records associated with the domain name, an SOA record,
some number of NS records, maybe a MX record and perhaps others. You can't
use a CNAME here.
What I do, however is use the CNAME on the www.domain.com record and have
it point to the domain.com record.
something like
$TTL 86400
@ in soa dns1.domain.com. harold.dns1.domain.com. (
2001050903 ; Serial
28800 ; Refresh 8 hours
7200 ; Retry 2 hours
604800 ; Expire 7 days
86400 ) ; Minimum TTL 1 day
in ns dns1.domain.com.
in ns dns2.domain.com.
in ns dns3.domain.com.
in mx 10 mail1.domain.com.
in mx 10 mail2.domain.com.
in a 192.168.1.11
;
;
in rp postmaster at domain.com. pmtxt
pmtxt in txt "john Doe (706) 555-1212"
;
localhost in a 127.0.0.1
;
dns1 in a 192.168.1.9
dns2 in a 192.168.1.193
dns3 in a 192.168.242.249
www in cname domain.com.
mail in mx 10 mail1.domain.com.
in mx 10 mail2.domain.com.
mail1 in a 192.168.3.5
mail2 in a 192.168.4.5
--
Harold Pritchett
The University of Georgia
harold at uga.edu
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