CNAME question. address alias

[Kevin Darcy]

The most you can do in DNS is alias the name, as you have done. If you want
anything beyond that, you'll have to do it in the webserver configuration.


- Kevin

K 87 wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to create subdomain for my master domain irys.com like
>
> ch197.irys.com
> bo185.irys.com
>
> And I want to have these domains be resolved as ch197.other.org and
> bo185.other.org
>
> so I used
>
> ch197 IN CNAME ch197.other.org.
> bo185 IN CNAME bo185.other.org.
>
> when I do nslookup of ch197 or bo185 it works well and return the ip adress
> for ch197.other.org ...
>
> Now is the question:
> other.org has lot of IP and subdomains ... but not one IP by subdomain !
> so when I use my browser and try ch197.irys.com it doesn't open the
> ch197.other.org site but the default site for other.org...
>
> Is there a solution to also change the domain request in http request ?
>
> you might have guess that I want to alias a sad http address by a pretty
> address :o).
>
> Hope I was enough clear. Thanks for your help .
>
> Timothy