CNAME Listing in BIND for Domain Outside of My Control

[Gregory Hicks]

> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:36:11 -0700
> From: "Dawn Connelly" <dawn.connelly at gmail.com>
> To: sillz <beth.stover at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: CNAME Listing in BIND for Domain Outside of My Control
> Cc: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> 
> The problem is with host headers. The destination webserver is inspecting
> the URL that people are trying to access and then matching that to a
> specific webpage. If the URL that people are putting into the browser is not
> configured on the webserver, it doesn't understand what page you are trying
> to get to. The problem isn't the fact that it's CNAME'ing to a CNAME...it's
> a webserver issue.

So set up a webserver at emergency.mydomain.com and have that page do a 
redirect to where-ever the real blog is located.

> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:22 PM, sillz <beth.stover at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm new to DNS and BIND.  I'm SOA for my domain.  I just set up BIND
> > 9.4.2 running on FreeBSD.  The zones transferred fine to the secondary
> > servers at my ISP, and all is well.
> >
> > Now for disaster recovery purposes, I'd like to create a CNAME or
> > alias to a blog site but have it resolve under my domain name.
> >
> > For example, I set up a blog for emergency purposes on blog spot.  The
> > URL is something like this:
> >
> > http://www.mydomain.blogspot.com
> >
> > I'd like to have it resolve to:
> >
> > emergency.mydomain.com
> >
> > I created the following entry in my zone file:
> >
> > emergency               IN CNAME        www.mydomain.blogspot.com.
> >
> > I refreshed the zones, and confirmed they resolve with NSLOOKUP, but
> > my new name just shows up as an alias like this:
> >
> > Name:    blogspot.l.google.com
> > Address:  72.14.207.191
> > Aliases:  emergency.mydomain.com, www.mydomain.blogspot.com
> >
> > If I try the URL like this:
> >
> > http://emergency.mydomain.com
> >
> > Then it resolves to blogspot.l.google.com, so I don't actually get to
> > my blog site.
> >
> > Is what I'm trying to do possible?
> >
> > Any help is appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 

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