Expert Required for this one , IP web problem!! Please Help !! Urgent

[Kevin Darcy]

Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <a4ei51$jcl at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
> Kevin Darcy  <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote:
> >
> >If I understand your requirements correctly, a CNAME should work fine
> >here.
>
> The web site is presumably doing name-based virtual hosting, and the
> browser will send the alias, not the canonical name, in the "Host:" header
> when it contacts the server.  Since they haven't put the alias in the
> virtual host configuration (and it sounds like the hosting provider refused
> to do so) the CNAME won't "work fine".

I didn't get the impression that the hosting provider _refused_.

At any rate, all that is required here from a DNS/BIND perspective, at most, is a
CNAME. If the hosting provider(s) can't deal with that, then it would appear to
not be a DNS/BIND issue at all.


- Kevin