no subdirectory pass - how to ??

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Tue Dec 4 22:31:16 UTC 2001


In article <9ujhkd$ppp at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Dan Johnson <qulixqulix at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Hello! I'm kind of new to bind. How do you setup a dns entry that
>doesn't pass subdirectories. Mydomain.com, the free dns host, has an
>option to not allow subdirectories to pass. This is great because if I
>have a blocked site on my firewall/dns server it would return the user
>to the same page for any variation of the blocked url.

DNS doesn't know anything about subdirectories, it just translates
hostnames to IP addresses.  Everything beyond that in the URL is handled by
the web server, not DNS.

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