Managing dynamic IP for subdomains using ZoneEdit.com

[Marc Storck]

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At 20:28 03.10.2002 -0400, you wrote:

>I posted this four hours ago, and I still don't see it in the newsgroup.  If
>it's there already, I apologize for this duplication.
>
>Thanks.
>
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>"Lee Grey" <news(at)option(removethis)insight(dot)com> wrote in message
>news:...
> > Hi.  I've got my dynamic IP address updating properly for each domain I
>have
> > registered at ZoneEdit.com.  I call http://dynamic.zoneedit.com with the
> > right zones parameter list, and all my domains get updated.  This is
>great.
> >
> > However, I want to create subdomains that also get updated by this call to
> > http://dynamic.zoneedit.com, but that's not happening.  I've tried
>creating
> > them and having them get implicitly updated as part of the main domain.
>For
> > example, suppose I have urlinone.com, www.urlinone.com, and
> > info.urlinone.com.  Updating urlinone.com does not change the IP address
>for
> > info.urlinone.com, although it DOES update www.urlinone.com.  I've tried
> > explicitly updating info.urlinone.com by adding it to the zones list in
>the
> > call to http://dynamic.zoneedit.com, but that returns an error, because
>that
> > is not a registered zone.
> >
> > So, I've come to the conclusion that I need either an A record, a CNAME
> > record, or a WebForward.  However, the WebForward seems to lose the
> > subdomain information turning a request for info.urlinone.com into
> > www.urlinone.com, so I get the feeling what I need is a CNAME.  However,
>all
> > of this stuff is very new to me, and I'm hoping someone can tell me how to
> > set this up at ZoneEdit.com.  I just want info.urlinone.com to get the
>same
> > dynamic IP that urlinone.com and www.urlinone.com do.  But the subdomain
> > information has to make it to my server, so that Apache can handle it
> > properly.
> >
> > ZoneEdit's CNAME documentation has me very confused.  I don't understand
>all
> > the terminology, and I'm afraid I'm going to break something.  Can someone
> > please help me understand what the proper way to configure this is?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Lee Grey
> > Grey Matter
> > http://www.URLinOne.com
> >
> >
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