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Old 08-03-2002, 12:11 PM   #1
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Question Reverse DNS question


I have to link www.somedomain.nl to www.somedomain.com. How do i do this in reverse dns???
I can't use the ipaddress so i have use CNAME. Normaly the line will look like this:

www IN A 123.123.123.123

But when i make the rev dns file from somedomain.nl to point to somedomain.com with CNAME like the following:

www IN CNAME www.somedomain.com

Then it wont be accepted. We have a script at work to do a killall -HUP named and to check up on things and it says it all works fine, but i know the dns file isn't correct because it just wont work.

Help would be appreciated!
 
Old 08-03-2002, 12:39 PM   #2
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You don't use CNAME records for reverse DNS. You use PTR records.

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Old 08-04-2002, 04:05 AM   #3
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I know, but isnt there any way that i can link to somedomain.com without using the ipadress?
 
Old 08-04-2002, 04:20 AM   #4
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The only question in your original post was "How do i do this in reverse dns???".

I'm confused as to what you actually want to do.

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Old 08-04-2002, 08:15 AM   #5
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If a user goes to somedomain.nl it has to be redirected to somedomain.com.
This has to be done with dns but i don't know how.
 
Old 08-04-2002, 09:03 AM   #6
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DNS doesn't do that. DNS merely converts names to IPs (A records) , IPs to names (PTR records) , or says what names can be considered to be equivalent to each other (CNAME records).

The easiest way to do this is to simply have an index page at somedomain.nl that instantly redirects to somedomain.com

This is a trivial piece of HTML.

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Old 08-04-2002, 09:31 AM   #7
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Only the domain somedomain.nl exists. It has got no webspace at all. So using javascripts or something isn't a possibility.
 
Old 08-04-2002, 10:14 AM   #8
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There's no Javascript involved, just plain old HTML.

You must have some hosting somewhere, so simply create a virtual host there and point the DNS at it. Easy.
 
Old 08-04-2002, 02:53 PM   #9
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For html you will need webspace. And the domain we have registred doesnt have any webspace.
I will ask it to a collegue tomorrow, he probably has an answer.
Tnx for trying to help!
 
  


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