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

["alan@" <alan@xxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gavin Nelmes-Crocker"
>
> > >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

Hi again,

Yep, you're all correct, it was a cname. Hard day at the office I'm afraid
;-)
However, it 'does' work, and as their is no email or other site to worry
about for the redirected domain, it can't do too much harm..... or can it ?
(leading question there, as I have had it set like that for nearly 2 years)

Regards

Alan