Eliminating the "www" Portion of a URL

[Paul Scott]

Cricket,

I still have been unable to figure this out.
Perhaps you could give me a few more clues?

Paul Scott
Eden Computers
1700 E. Garry Avenue, Suite # 231
Santa Ana, CA  92705
(949) 863-1432
(949) 863-1435 (fax)
pscott at edencomputers.com <mailto:pscott at edencomputers.com> 
http://www.edencomputers.com

 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
> Behalf Of Cricket Liu
> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 10:21 PM
> 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.
> 
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> 
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