Eliminating the "www" Portion of a URL

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Richard,

I tried exactly as you said to do and it did not work:

$TTL 259200
@ IN SOA atlantis.edenaudio.com. hostmaster.edenaudio.com. (
                        2000032003      ; Serial
                        1H              ; Refresh
                        10M             ; Retry
                        4w2d            ; Expiry
                        1h )            ; Negative caching TTL

                        IN NS   atlantis.aoc.net.
                        IN NS   pluto.aoc.net.

                        MX 10   mail.edenaudio.com.

                        IN      A       216.132.25.11
www                     IN      A       216.132.25.11

atlantis                IN      A       216.132.25.7
pluto                   IN      A       216.132.25.8

edenaudio.com.          IN      A       216.132.25.7

mail                    IN      A       216.132.25.10


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-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
Behalf Of Richard Barnes -Listserv
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 7:45 AM
To: BIND List; pscott at edencomputers.com
Subject: Re: Eliminating the "www" Portion of a URL



I've attached one of my zone files that allow you to resolve a domain name
to an IP address without adding a leading host name such as www.....

The trick is that the very first A record needs to be blank.

If you have any questions, let me know....
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Scott <pscott at edencomputers.com>
To: 'Cricket Liu' <cricket at acmebw.com>; bind-users at isc.org
<bind-users at isc.org>
Date: Monday, March 20, 2000 3:19 AM
Subject: RE: Eliminating the "www" Portion of a URL


>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.
>>
>> cricket
>>
>> Acme Byte & Wire
>> cricket at acmebw.com
>> www.acmebw.com
>>
>> Attend the next Internet Software Consortium/Acme Byte & Wire
>> DNS and BIND class!  See www.acmebw.com/training.htm for
>> the schedule and to register for upcoming classes.
>>
>>
>
>
>


-- Attached file included as plaintext by Listar --
-- File: bjanes.com.db.txt

;
; Data file of hostnames in this zone.
;
@ IN    SOA     polaris.BlazeNet.net. postmaster.BlazeNet.net. (
				2               ; Serial
				10800           ; Refresh - 3 hours
				3600            ; Retry - 1 hour
				604800          ; Expire - 1 week
				86400 )         ; Minimum TTL - 1 day
;
; Name Servers
;
                IN      NS      polaris.BlazeNet.net.
                IN      NS      sirius.BlazeNet.net.
;
; Mail (MX) exchange records
;
; if they have own mail server, remove the smtp.blazenet.net entry
bjanes.com.     IN      MX      10 pop.blazenet.net.
bjanes.com.     IN      MX      15 smtp.blazenet.net.
bjanes.com.     IN      MX      20 polaris.BlazeNet.net.
bjanes.com.     IN      MX      30 sirius.BlazeNet.net.
;
; Aliases
;
		IN	A	24.104.48.243
www		IN	A	24.104.48.243
;
; Addresses for the canonical names
; %HOSTS_END%