Please, if you can help..

[Kevin Darcy]

When you say "redirect" do you mean the name actually changes in your browser
window? If so, then this has nothing to do with DNS. The miraboo.com webserver is
issuing an HTTP redirect of miraboo.com URL's to www.miramat.com. Check the
URL redirection part of its configuration.

You *do* have an error in the miraboo.com zone file though: the name
"miraboo.com" *cannot* own a CNAME record as well as an SOA, A, an MX and 2
NS records. You must delete the illegal CNAME. After that, you need to decide
whether to a) leave only the 209.204.28.46 A record owned by "miraboo.com",
b) *change* the A record to point to 207.171.3.33 (which is what
www.miraboomusic.com resolves to when I query it), or c) *add* a 207.171.3.33
A record, in which case the multiple A records will cause the responses to be
"round-robin"ed between the two addresses, spreading the load between the
webservers.

(Hopefully you understand that "@" just stands for the name of the domain itself;
that's how I came up with my total count of 5 records owned by "miraboo.com"
besides the CNAME. As a matter of fact, since all of the legal records owned by
"miraboo.com" are contiguous in the zonefile, you could have just used "@" for
the first one and whitespace for the others -- IMO this would have made your
zonefile more readable. The same style recommendation applies to the miramat.com
zone file, but in that case requires some rearrangement).


- Kevin

Mark R. Nathan wrote:

> (I Apologize for sending this twice but I am guessing the lack of
> response is based on my error to explain the problem correctly.  If
> you could correct this error and help me understand what I have done
> incorrectly I would be very greatful)
>
> ----
> Thanks for reading.
>
> I am having trouble redirecting virtual domains that do not start
> with www to another host location.
>
> miraboo.com DNS is on my BSD server locally (dns1.miramat.com) but I
> have it redirecting to CNAME www.miraboomusic.com.  This
> configuration works fine but when I type in http://miraboo.com it
> redirects to http://www.miramat.com which is a website that is hosted
> on the DNS host. I have tested several changes and nothing is working.
>
> Would someone please look at my zone data below and kick my brain in a little?
>
> MASTER ZONE:
>
> $TTL 86400
> miramat.com.            IN SOA   dns1.miramat.com.  root.nathan.net.  (
>                          20001108        ; Serial
>                          10800           ; Refresh
>                          3600            ; Retry
>                          604800          ; Expire
>                          86400  )        ; Minimum
>
> miramat.com.            IN  NS          dns1.miramat.com.
> @                       IN  NS          NS2.CENTRALINFO.NET.
> dns1.miramat.com.       IN  A           209.204.28.46
>                          IN  MX  10      mailhost.miramat.com.
> localhost               IN  A           127.0.0.1
> miramat.com.            IN  A           209.204.28.46
> mailhost.miramat.com.   IN  A           209.204.28.46
> ftp.miramat.com.        IN  A           209.204.28.46
> www.miramat.com.        IN  A           209.204.28.46
> shell                   IN  A           209.204.28.46
>
> Zone miraboo.com:
>
> $TTL 86400
> miraboo.com.            IN  SOA miraboo.com.  root.nathan.net. (
>                          20000511        ; Serial
>                          10800           ; Refresh
>                          3600            ; Retry
>                          604800          ; Expire
>                          86400  )        ; Minimum
>
> miraboo.com.            IN  NS          dns1.miramat.com.
> @                       IN  NS          NS2.CENTRALINFO.NET.
>                          IN  A           209.204.28.46
> miraboo.com.            IN  MX  10      mailhost.miramat.com.
> localhost               IN  A           127.0.0.1
> miraboo.com.            IN  CNAME       www.miraboomusic.com.
> www.miraboo.com.        IN  CNAME       www.miraboomusic.com.
> --
>
> =======================================================================
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>     Mark R. Nathan                        http://www.miraboomusic.com
>     Miraboo Group                   mailto:president at miraboomusic.com
>     President                                  mailto:mark at nathan.net