Eliminating the "www" Portion of a URL

[hillmanchris at my-deja.com]

In article <001101bf8ccd$ddc7b3e0$afaa1e18 at aoc.net>,
<pscott at edencomputers.com> wrote:
> That is exactly the same problem that I had.
> I don't know why this occurs, but I am sure somebody out there has the
> correct answer.
>
> Sincerely, Paul Scott
> Eden Computers
> (949) 863-1432
> (949) 863-1435 (fax)
> pscott at edencomputers.com <mailto:pscott at edencomputers.com>
> http://www.edencomputers.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
> Behalf Of Osman Kazdal
> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 10:50 PM
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: RE: Eliminating the "www" Portion of a URL
>
> Hello,
> Once, i had that configured for my domain. For this domain, i had web
> server
> and mail server on different machines. In time, mails from the
internet
> were
> going to my web server totally ignoring my MX records.
> Is there any solution for this problem?
>
> Osman Kazdal
> osman at kazdal.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cricket Liu [mailto:cricket at acmebw.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 8:21 AM
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: Re: Eliminating the "www" Portion of a URL
>
> > How can I setup my zone records for each of the domains that I host
so
> that
> > the "www" portion of an address does not need to be entered when
browsing
> to
> > a site's URL? I have tried and tried to get this functionality, but
> cannot
> > seem to figure it out. It seems that it would be as simple as the
> > following:
> >
> > domain.com. IN A 216.132.25.7
>
> Yes.
>
> > www IN A 216.132.15.11
> > domain.com IN CNAME www
>
> No. You can't add a CNAME record for domain.com because it
> almost certainly already has an SOA record and at least two NS
> records.
>
> > But this does not work, since the www address is an NT server
running IIS
> > and domain.com. is already pointing to 216.132.25.7 (the primary DNS
> > server).
>
> Then you have to ask yourself why domain.com is pointing to that
> address, and whether it's more important to allow your visitors to
> omit the "www" in your URL.
>
> cricket
>
> Acme Byte & Wire
> cricket at acmebw.com
> www.acmebw.com
>
> Attend the next Internet Software Consortium/Acme Byte & Wire
> DNS and BIND class! See www.acmebw.com/training.htm for
> the schedule and to register for upcoming classes.
>
Just do this...
<----SNIP
localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
domain.com. IN A 216.132.25.7
mail IN A XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX (insert mailserver IP here)
www IN CNAME domain.com.; GLOBALOK
*.domain.com. IN MX 10 mail.domain.com. ; GLOBALOK
domain.com. IN MX 10 mail.domain.com.
<----SNIP
-Chris Hillman
chris at webboise.com


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