forwarding "@" to a different domain?

[enigmedia (onl)]

On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 15:11:19 +0000 "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> 
wrote

> Just as a follow on to that prior thread.
> 
> I was able to setup the CNAME for www and * at the Registrar without A
> 
records as indicated.  Unfortunately the * at registrar equated to "*."
> 
Meaning for example ftp.mydomain.com would work with that CNAME but the
> domain 
itself, mydomain.com, would not.   Despite the ecommerce vendor
> (Amazon 
ultimately) saying one should NOT setup A records their response to
> us was to 
leave the two CNAMES (www and *) in place and setup an 3 A records
> for the 
domain itself.

Thanks Jeff: I ended up setting up a website with a permanent 
redirect on my webserver server to the shopify server...hopefully that will 
work.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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[mailto:bind-users-bounces+jlightner=water.com at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of
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> Subject: Re: forwarding "@" to a different domain?
> 
> On Sunday 08 January 2012 09:48:42 enigmedia wrote:
> > Hi All: I have a 
situation where I need to forward requests for
> > "mydomain.com" and 
"www.mydomain.com" to a third party:
> 
> "mydomain.com" is a real domain, and probably not yours. If for some
> reason 
you do not want to mention your real domain name, use
> "example.com" (or 
example.TLD for most top-level domains), which is
> reserved for examples.
> 
> > "mydomain.myshopify.com" (while still pointing other things like
> > MX 
records elsewhere).
> >
> > I realize I can point a CNAME for "WWW" to
> > 
"mydomain.myshopify.com", but how do I point "mydomain.com" to
> > this third 
party if there is no A record to point to?
> 
> This is beginning to be a FAQ here, perhaps due to the popularity of
> such 
hosting services (which seem to have been designed by people who
> have a poor 
understanding of DNS.)
> 
> This was my reply in a thread last month; refer to the entire thread
> for 
more:
> 
> https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-users/2011-December/085918.html
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