Eliminating the "www" Portion of a URL

[Osman Kazdal]

Hello,
Once, i had that configured for my domain. For this domain, i had web server
and mail server on different machines. In time, mails from the internet were
going to my web server totally ignoring my MX records.
Is there any solution for this problem? 

Osman Kazdal
osman at kazdal.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Cricket Liu [mailto:cricket at acmebw.com]
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 8:21 AM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: Eliminating the "www" Portion of a URL


> How can I setup my zone records for each of the domains that I host so
that
> the "www" portion of an address does not need to be entered when browsing
to
> a site's URL?  I have tried and tried to get this functionality, but
cannot
> seem to figure it out.  It seems that it would be as simple as the
> following:
>
> domain.com.    IN    A 216.132.25.7

Yes.

> www            IN    A 216.132.15.11
> domain.com     IN CNAME www

No.  You can't add a CNAME record for domain.com because it
almost certainly already has an SOA record and at least two NS
records.

> But this does not work, since the www address is an NT server running IIS
> and domain.com. is already pointing to 216.132.25.7 (the primary DNS
> server).

Then you have to ask yourself why domain.com is pointing to that
address, and whether it's more important to allow your visitors to
omit the "www" in your URL.

cricket

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