Re: [cobalt-users] Raq4 - point domain to users external webspace

[Revd leonard payne <vicarage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 23/4/01 2:29 pm, Brian M. Rahill at brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Paul,
> 
>> A client of mine just wants me to manage his domain and email with no
>> hosting. I have to forward his domain to his webspace on
>> another server. How can I do this without using Meta Tags or JavaScript?
>> 
>> Can I do it via the DNS GUI?
> 
> In DNS you could make A records that point to the IP address of your
> clients server.  It's not really a forward...it's better than that.  You
> are basically just providing DNS for him/her.
> 
> www.clientsdomain.com  >>>  123.123.123.123 (client's server IP address)
> cleintsdomain.com  >>> 123.123.123.123 (client's server IP address)

Thats fine - but what about when the only web space is free stuff, where
you're not given any IP address but just a URL like
www.paynefamily.freeserve.net  ?

I'm not sure how to forward tp this although I know a number of folks who do
?


Regards
Revd Leonard