Hi guys, how do I point from my DNS Server, a domain which I own to another url?

I have a client who wants to point his domain to a blogspot account...
domainname.com -> domainname.blogspot.com

possible?

You can use the following to the zone file of the domain you are authoritative for:

i was thinking of that.. but i was thinking... how do blogspot resolve "domainname.com" redirects?

Put two entries.
One
domainname.com IN A Ip-of-the-domain
domainname.blogspot.com CNAME domainname.com

That will resolve both the entries to the specified IP.

Hope that will work.

Regards
Manjunath

What do you mean by this? blogpost will ask your dns for anything related to domainname.com

I don't understand your question. If you want to chang the direction of your domain then all you have to do is change the address to where it needs to point to. All DNS does is resolve numbers to names, it translates numbers to names and names to numbers, not one name to another name. If you want to redirect a web site then you need to do it with the 'redirect' configuration paramater in apache. If you want to change where your domain name points to then change the ip address of the host in the zone file.

ooh thanks

I am actually looking to do it the other way round, which I tried and didn't work

people who entered domainname.com will be directed to domainname.blogspot.com (which belongs to blogspot, not under me)

but i can't just point domainname.com to ip-address of blogspot.com as it wouldn't know to go domainname.blogspot.com

anyway... initially i don't see the url forwarding option on my domainname registrar, but now after checking with them i realise how its done so at least i got what i want.

but being curious, is it possible to do it on our own dns server, thus url-forwarding?

many thanks to the many advice and tips and concerns

URL forwarding will allow you to forward another domain name to the same web page. So what you can do is change the web page for blogspot.com then forward newdomain.blogspot.com to blogspot.com.

But it sounds to me like you want colocate a domain as a subdomain of another domain. You can create two virtual hosts in apache: blogspot.com and newdomain.blogspot.com then point them to the same web site or separate web sites. However, the browser will still display newdomain.blogspot.com. You can also add the external address of newdomain to the DNS of blogspot.com; make sure newdomain.blogspot.com is created as a virtual host on the server that the web site is currently on. The browser will still display newdomain.blogspot.com. If you want to redirect newdomain.blogspot.com to domain.com so that the browser changes from newdomain.blogspot.com to domain.com then you'll need to create a riderect statement in your web server.