being able to map http://www.mycompany.com to http://mycompany.com

[Derek J. Balling]

At 5:10 PM -0600 3/28/01, Philip J. Priest wrote:
>How to you configure BIND to be able to do this.  We have some customers who
>are asking me they can do http://yahoo.com and get to yahoo's site.
>
>this is prolly in the archive but i couldnt find it.

All it takes is some A-records.

$ dig yahoo.com a

; <<>> DiG 9.1.1rc6 <<>> yahoo.com a
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9102
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;yahoo.com.                     IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
yahoo.com.              1800    IN      A       216.115.108.243
yahoo.com.              1800    IN      A       216.115.108.245


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