surf mydomain.com vs www.mydomain.com

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Tue Aug 14 17:40:59 UTC 2001


In article <9lbn3j$d0g at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Brandon Yu  <byu at Emode.com> wrote:
>If a user were to put in their web browser "mydomain.com" and I wanted to
>re-direct them to  <http://www.mydomain.com> http://www.mydomain.com how
>could I achieve this properly? I heard you could modify the bind 8
>configuration to achieve this. Please also assume that the browser does not
>do any magic.

Just put an A record in the domain for mydomain.com, just like you put one
in for www.mydomain.com.  No special configuration is necessary, it's just
a name like anything else, and any name can be given an address.

What is it about this that's so difficult to understand that someone asks
it every few days?

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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