Redirect Domain with CNAME, but leave Subdomain
Kevin Darcy
kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Fri Nov 10 03:53:46 UTC 2006
susikaufmann2003 at hotmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i have the following problem: I am hosting a domain and now I want to
> redirect nearly everything, but leave the mail-transfer and one
> subdomain on my server.
>
> E.g.: mail.mydomain.com, mysubdomain.mydomain.com should be left on my
> server, but everything else, e.g. www.mydomain.com should be done by
> another server www.other.com (CNAME).
>
> now:
>
> mydomain.com. 86400 IN A xx.xx.xx.xx
>
Change that A record to the address of the other server. Unfortunately
it's not legal to CNAME the name of an actual zone. So you'll have to
keep this A record in sync with any changes that are made to the
www.other.com A record.
> *.mydomain.com. 86400 IN A xx.xx.xx.xx
>
*.mydomain.com. 86400 cname www.other.com.
> www.mydomain.com. 86400 IN CNAME www.other.com.
>
Not needed, since it's covered by the wildcard above.
> mydomain.com. 86400 IN MX 10 mail.mydomain.com.
>
Change the MX target to the name of the new mail server.
> mydomain.com. 86400 IN NS ns.blabla.com.
> mydomain.com. 86400 IN NS ns2.blabla.com.
>
Can't use CNAMEs for these either. You'll need to point them at the new
nameservers. Don't forget to change your delegation records too, via
your domain registrar. Your delegation NS records and apex NS records
should match. Since delegation changes sometimes take a while to
process/propagate, you'll probably want the zone to continue to be
served on both the old and new nameservers during the transition. After
the transition, don't forget to get the zone deleted from the old
servers, otherwise other nameservers may get "locked" into using a stale
version of the zone for some period of time afterwards (or you could
make the old servers into stealth slaves I guess, that would work too).
-
Kevin
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