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RE: [cobalt-users] DNS not on my server but site is

Andy Jacobs
Media Marks
Web Design, Hosting, Site Promotion
Tel: 023 9241 3880
www.mediamarks.net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Edward Bishop
> Sent: 13 February 2002 14:19
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] DNS not on my server but site is
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andy Jacobs
>
> Hi All,
>
> Hopefully a simple one and I'll try and keep it to bullet points:
>
> RAQ4
> Customer uses Easynet for ISP
> Domain name shows on Easynet's nameservers
> Web site is hosted on a box somewhere else
> I guess Easynet just redirect http requests to this other box
> Easynet handle all the e-mail for the domain
>
> I may be off track but I guess they would set up an a record to point
> to my
> IP address.  I would then set up the site as normal with a records for
> www.domain.com and domain.com but _not_ mail.domain.com through the
> GUI.  I
> guess I would then not need to set up mx records for the domain.
> Would I
> need to set up anything else or just the a records?
>
> Does any of this make sense?  Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Andy Jacobs
> Media Marks
>
>
> How about putting the site in a subdirectory of one of your existing
> sites, eg your home one, and then uploading a little HTML frameset
> onto the Easynet server to redirect the browser to your server?
>
> Eg upload the following to the site on Easynet and call it index.html
> (or index.htm or default.htm depending on that server - or just have
> all of them with the same contents):
>
> <html><head><title>Title of the site</title></head>
> <frameset cols="100%,*" border="0" frameborder="0"><frame
> name="content"
> src=http://your-domain-on-RaQ/your-subdirectory-containing-customer-si
> te/index.html" noresize scrolling="auto">
> <frame name="dummy" src="dummy.htm" noresize scrolling="no">
> </frameset><body></body></html>
>
> Hope this helps and I haven't failed to understand the problem fully

Cheers, but it doesn't really help.  The customer doesn't have any hosting
with Easynet, they just handle the DNS.  Sorry if this is over simplifying
it but at the moment someone types in www.mycustomer.com.  This is on
ns.easynet.net (or whatever).  The actual files for the site are on IP
address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.  I'm assuming Easynet have an a record that points
to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.  What I need to know is, if they change xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
to the IP address of my server, will Apache on my RAQ know what to do.

Andy