CNAME ?

[Jonathan Petersson]

Speaking of which, wasn't there a thread just a few days ago why not to 
have any A records for "domain.com", so neither of this would be the best.

Sabio, if you're running Apache you probably want to have a look at 
VirtualHost http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/vhosts/

Good luck!

Madison Kelly wrote:
> sasi-technique wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>> I'm quite new  in Bind configuration so I hope someone can answer this. In 
>> Bind DNS entrie, Is there a way to do this :
>>
>> When people tape http://domain.com redirect to http://www.domain.com ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> F. Sabino
>>     
>
> If I understand your question (guessing by the subject), then no, CNAME 
> will not do this. As others have suggested, you're web server will have 
> to do this. Personally, I create a virtual host container and symlink 
> it's document root to the the virtual host container I have my real 
> data, but this may or may not work for you (it will not change the url). 
> Regardless, that is outside the scope of this mailing list.
>
> What CNAME (Canonical NAME) does is say to BIND, "return the IP address 
> for 'domain.com.' when someone requests the IP for 'www.domain.com.'." 
> As opposed to an 'A' record which is the specific IP address to resolve.
>
> Madi
>
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