How does prefixed domain name work?
Barry Margolin
barmar at alum.mit.edu
Tue Feb 24 01:04:21 UTC 2004
In article <c1e6hr$1e7l$1 at sf1.isc.org>, mfrie01 at pobox.com (Michael)
wrote:
> This weekend we moved our web site host to a new hosting company. For
> discussion, we'll use "domainname.com" as our site address. Clients
> log into a server behind our firewall through a link on our home page.
> There used to be an IP address in the home page link for client login,
> but it was changed recently and the developer has disappeared. The
> link now says https://secure.domainname.com/servername/
>
> Now that we're with the new hosting company, the link is broken (no
> surprise). There's a security certificate on the client site that
> expect you to be at https://secure.domainname.com/servername/ and
> burps if you use the IP address. (But the IP address still works
> fine.)
>
> Can someone tell me how a prefix to my domain name works so I can do
> whatever's necessary to get this thing working again?
You need an A record in the domainname.com zone file that translates the
host name "secure" to the IP address of your server, i.e.
secure IN A <ipaddress>
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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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