Re: [cobalt-users] OT: How does a DNS Pointer work?

["Andy Ross" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In my limited experience, you can do one of two things :-

1. Add the second domain name as an alias on the main virtual site. This
would mean that the user would see the domain name change in their address
bar.

2. Create an extra virtual site for the other domain name with only one
page - index.html. This page would be a single frame frameset, the contents
of this page being the index from the main site, eg
http://www.mainsite.com/index.html. This would have the benefit of retaining
the domain name in the address bar.

Regards,

Andy.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Gottschalk" <Jason@xxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 3:17 PM
Subject: [cobalt-users] OT: How does a DNS Pointer work?


> Hello cobalt-users,
>
> I want to have two domain names go to the same site.
> the .org site is up and running, I want the .com name to go to the
> same place.
>
> The problem I see is that the .org is a virtual domain and my cobalt
> Raq 4i is hosting multiple domains on one IP address.
>
> If I simply setup a new zone record like the others, the cobalt will
> think it is another site but won't find it.
>
> I think I need the .com to point to the .org without any reference to
> the ip address at all.
>
> My zone record template looks like this:
>
> $TTL 86400
> $ORIGIN yourdomain.com.
> @       IN      SOA     ns.hosting4u.net. jason.syo.com. (
>                                 2003010700              ; Serial
>                                 10800           ; Refresh, seconds
>                                 3600            ; Retry, seconds
>                                 604800          ; Expire, seconds
>                                 86400)          ; Minimum TTL, seconds
>                 IN      NS      ns.hosting4u.net.
>                 IN      NS      ns2.hosting4u.net.
>                 IN      MX      10 mail.yourdomain.com.
>                 IN      A       your.ip.address
> $ORIGIN yourdomain.com.
> mail            IN      A       your.ip.address
> smtp            IN      A       your.ip.address
> www             IN      A       your.ip.address
> ftp             IN      A       your.ip.address
> *               IN      A       your.ip.address
>
>
>
> I think a CName might work, but I read here in another post, that it
> is good to avoid CNames all costs.
>
> What can I do?
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Jason Gottschalk                         mailto:Jason@xxxxxxx
>  SYO Computer Engineering Services, Inc.
>  586-286-2557
>
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