Eliminating the "www" Portion of a URL
James Housley
jim at thehousleys.net
Mon Mar 13 12:29:19 UTC 2000
Paul Scott wrote:
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> 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
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> www IN A 216.132.15.11
> domain.com IN CNAME www
>
> 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).
>
> Any assistance on this would be greatly appreciated.
>
Couple of options.
first:
domain.com. IN A 216.132.25.11
domain.com. MX 10 mail.domain.com.
www IN CNAME www
mail IN A 216.132.25.7
second:
Have your router/firwall redirect all inbound traffic to 216.132.25.7:80
to 216.132.25.11:80
Jim
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The foolish man built his network upon Windows.
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