RE: [cobalt-users] domain auto redirect -- AGAIN

["Dan" <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The problem:  I get an "unable to locate server" error message when I try
> to access a domain that is pointed to my servers (from network
> solutions),
> but is not yet set up on my servers.  I was hoping that it would hit the
> 404 page and then I could redirect it appropriately without setting it up
> on my servers, but unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the case.
>
> Any comments/help would be appreciated.  I tried setting up a PTR record
> for it, but since I am using name based hosting, it takes the site to the
> first site in my list of sites for that particular IP
ress....:-( 
>  Adding an A Record didn't seem to do the trick...
> 
I suppose that if you had an unused IP, you could set up a sub-domain on that IP, remove the index.html from the directory so a 404 appears for any access to that.
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Dan Kriwitsky