Dynamic website address

[Pete Walker]

Hi,

The only reason I mentioned dynamic was because the guy hosting the site had
attached a ps to his request stating that he could assign a static address
if required - I took that to mean that some dynamics existed somewhere but
if you say that his webserver will sort this out then I'm happy.

Thanks,

Pete.

-----Original Message-----
From: owen at bass.noc.u-net.net [mailto:owen at bass.noc.u-net.net]On Behalf
Of Owen McShane
Sent: 03 December 2003 10:46
To: Pete Walker
Cc: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: Dynamic website address


Hi,

you can't point an A record at a URL.

You would need to just have:

catalystevents.co.uk.	IN	A	205.214.89.240

And then the webserver admin would alias catalystevents.co.uk to the
/~catevent directory on the server.

I don't know what you mean about a "Dynamic website address"

Owen

> I have not come across this issue before, as all the websites we host have
> statically assigned IP addresses, making A record
> implementations/modifications easy.
>
> I have just been asked to point the A record for a domain on our name
> servers from its original IP address (195.224.179.85) to the following
>
> 205.214.89.240/~catevent/
>
> I'm not convinced the A record field will welcome this string and would be
> grateful for some advice regarding this kind of implementation in BIND 8.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Pete Walker
> AD Software Solutions
>
>
>


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