Re: [cobalt-users] www.machinename.domain.com??

["Carrie Linn Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx>]

> and so on. All Brian needs to do is have one virtual site for DOMAIN.COM
and
> another virtual site for NAME.DOMAIN.COM. Once he has done that, with the
> proper DNS records for both, he will be able to have completely different
> sites for domain.com and name.domain.com. www.name.domain.com then will
> simply be the www host for the third-level domain name.domain.com.
>
> --
> Rodolfo J. Paiz
> rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I've taken a couple of my domains, testing them out, and have done
sub-domains as completely new sites; by specifying the 'host' as the
sub-domain part.
When someone comes on board with a virtual site and they want to see their
site before the DNS switches over, what I'll do is set up their site like
normal, www.blue-widgets.com (for example) and do the DNS for it. Then I'll
go back and change the host in their site settings to 'blue' and the domain
name to allaboutchoice.com. Then I add an A record for
blue.allaboutchoice.com.
This way, they can get to their site by blue.allaboutchoice.com before the
domain switches over, and once they email me and say "Ack! My site is
pointing to AAC's main page!!" then we know the DNS has caught up, and I
just switch it back. <grin>

But this rambling has just been to say that you can indeed have a completely
different virtual site and just whip up a host name for it.

This makes me come up with a question though... on my RaQ4 in the DNS
settings, in the drop-down menu where you choose which type of record to
add, there is "subdomain" at the bottom. Has anyone played with this?  It's
on my list of to-do but that list is as long as Santa's!!

Carrie Bartkowiak