Re: [cobalt-users] suspending domain

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Brandon Keim wrote:

> I have some nonpaying domains that I need to suspend.  This is what I did:
> I made a "Domain is not accessible....bla bla" page and put it under a fake
> domain (nopayment.com) which was on it's own IP address 63.100.13.41.  Then
> I went into the DNS and added an A record for nopayment.com to point to
> 63.100.13.41.  Then I changed the A records for the domains that need to be
> suspended to point to 63.100.13.41.  In theory now when you type in a
> suspended domain it should go to nopayment.com at 63.100.13.41 and display
> my page right?  Well it's giving me Not Found, any suggestions?

um, no, you can't just make up a domain name ;) besides someone owns
nopayment.com already...(it doesn't resolve, which is why you get not
found)

your server may be able to lookup the ip address you put in , but client
browsers won't be able to , they aren't using your nameserver....

Why did you do all that work? all you have ot do is rename the web folder
in the sitexx directory and make a new one with nothing in it, or redirect
everything to one page....

if you want to do this from the gui only, a simple method might to be
changing the 'host' part of the domain to something else , then make a new
site using the old (www) host...you can make up arbitrary host aprts for
an existing domain name all you want...