RE: [cobalt-users] domain forwarding, or is that different - Raq3i

["Gavin Nelmes-Crocker" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >That seems to work just fine. I'm not sure if the GUI is the
> same for the 3i
> >but i'm sure you must be able to add dns records somewhere there.
>
> Boy that sure sounded nice and simple, but, I tried it - the
> Raq3i GUI does
> not allow me to enter a name for the destination IP, it says:
> -------------
> This IP address is not valid. A valid IP address consists of four numbers
> between 0 and 255 separated by decimal points. For example, 192.168.25.77
> is valid.
> -------------
> I guess the DNS setup in the GUI doesn't know what DNS is for :)
>
> Any other thoughts ... modifying the httpd.conf is certainly an option,
> although I'd prefer to not have to do that, I will if I have to. Anyone
> know how to do it in HTML, if so, I'll just create the other site and
> redirect them.

As far as I'm aware an A record can only be a domain name pointing to an ip,
if you want to point a domain name to another domain name that would a cname
record or alias, the problem comes on the RaQ3 with getting it to accept
traffic on the domain for other domains.  To do this you would have to edit
the httpd.conf find the main site that you are going to use and add in the
other domains that it should respond to.

This was a feature added to the RaQ4 software - there is some stuff in the
archives for RaQ3 on this but it may be hard to find now.

Regards

Gavin