Creating Vanity domains

[Jon Booth]

To get domain.com/username to work where you are dishing out usernames has
nothing to do with dns (except to make sure domain.com points to your web
server).
Take alook at Apache's URL rewrite module. It can do exactly what you are
after.

Jon

> >
> > I know that a
> > *        A    1.2.3.4
> > record will resolve anyname.domain.com to www.domain.com
> >
> > The question : will Bind map a request for particular part of the
> > site to a direcory within the site so that I can create
> > username1.domain.com and username2.domain.com as seperate websites
> > or should I make the * A record and use the HTTP header to redirect
> > the request?