[ale] OT- sorta - DNS

[Jerald Sheets]

Both names need their own A record.  From a working zone file (to an
unfinished site) :)  :


www                     IN A    66.23.219.187
                        IN MX   10 mail.questy.org.

questy.org.             IN A    66.23.219.187
                        IN MX   10 mail.questy.org.


Now, the two things you refer to, both the above and the load balancing
scenario can be done via BIND, HTTPD, or a load balancer...your choice.

I hope that answers your question.

 Jerald M. Sheets jr.
Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator
(404) 293-8762

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-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of fgz
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 7:52 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] OT- sorta - DNS


The boss calleth on me today, with a 'simple request'. This is for a small
business site: what I want to achieve is to have any end-user simply enter a
valid domainname into their browser, then have that name redirect to a
business website, i.e. they'll enter smallbiz.com, and they go off to
www.smallbiz.com. Obviously many big sites do this: for instance, yahoo.com
will redirect to www.yahoo.com. An nslookup on yahoo.com will give the
IP/names of several servers - or maybe cluster redirectors, or a bunch of
load balancing devices, perhaps? Anyway, simply doing a cname to a webserver
doesn't work (didn't think it would, but I tried anyway. ;) Is there a
simple way to do this? Any good concise, favored, resources on the web that
address this? Our external DNS server is an ancient Solaris 2.6 box, with a
really nasty old version of bind. In-house webservers are iPlanet ws6sp5 on
Solaris 9.

Thanks.
-fgz




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