Forwarding hits from a domain to a free web page?

[Owen McShane]

Hi,

[owen at bass owen]$ host catalog.stormloader.com
catalog.stormloader.com. has address 209.25.223.227

visiting catalog.stormloader.com and 209.25.223.227 in a browser gives 
different results, which means the web hosting company is using name based 
virtual hosts.

Hence you cannot simply set up:

www.cadables.com.	IN	CNAME	catalog.stormloader.com.

The web hosting company would need to set up server side config for this to 
work.

Alternatively you could set up a framset on the existing website so that it 
simply pulled in catalog.stormloader.com as a frame.

hth

Owen

> I'm also wondering if what I want to do is actually possible, but to
> make it clearer, below is a copy of the configuration file:
> 
> *start*
> 
> $TTL 300
> $ORIGIN .
> cadables.com.              IN      SOA ns4.autoforward.com.
> info.autoforward.com. (
>                         2001022201 ; serial, date and version
>                         28800 ; refresh, 8 hours
>                         7200 ; retry, 2 hours
>                         604800 ; expire, 7 days
>                         300 ; default_ttl, 5 minutes
>                         )
> cadables.com.              IN      NS      ns2.autoforward.com.
> cadables.com.              IN      NS      ns3.autoforward.com.
> cadables.com.              IN      A       216.55.182.106
> www.cadables.com.          IN      A       216.55.182.106
> 
> *end*
> 
> What I want to learn how to do is to set up the configuration such
> that hits on http://www.cadables.com result in
> http://catalog.stormloader.com being displayed in a web browser. If
> possible. I've tried other (perhaps too simplistic) setups, but
> nothing yet has worked.
> 
> Maybe this just isn't possible to do in DNS alone?
> 
> (BTW, this post is also directed to all the great folks out there who
> took the time to email me comments - thanks for helping!)
> 
> --
> Mike
> 
> 
> Bruce Ferrell <bferrell at microdisplay.com> wrote in message
> news:9710vq$rgq at pub3.rc.vix.com...
> :
> : Never seen it done in DNS... AFAIK, it's done by the web server.
> :
> : "M. Knoper" wrote:
> :
> : > Okay - I am a newbie and trying to learn about DNS configuration.
> I'd
> : > like to know how to setup a zone file to forward hits from a
> domain to
> : > a free web page. Does anyone have an example DNS zone file
> : > demonstrating how to do this?
> : >
> : > --
> : > Mike
> :
> :
> :
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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