Newbie question

[Kevin Darcy]

Either add an A record for www.foo.com with the same address as
www.bar.com, or create an alias (CNAME) from www.foo.com pointing to
www.bar.com. An alias is less efficient, since it requires nameservers to
essentially resolve 2 names (the alias name and the A record itself) rather
than just 1, but is often more maintainable because it can be changed
independently of the address record itself.


- Kevin

John Anderson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've read the archives of the site, and I've probably read the answer
> I'm looking for but just do not realize it, so I am going to ask the
> list.
>
> I'm running BIND 8.2.2-P5 on RedHat 6.1.
>
> Here is my question:
>
> My company owns a domain name, someone else is hosting the site (not
> affiliated with us), we want the domain name to redirect/forward to that
> site.
>
> For example, you type in your browser, http://www.foo.com we want you to
> go straight to http://www.bar.com.
>
> We would rather have this done via DNS as opposed to HTTP.
>
> How would one go about doing this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --John