Resolving domain.com to a host?

[Joseph Begumisa]

> This may seem odd, but I have seen other sites resolve just a domain name
> to a given host.  This enables you to put http://kites.org in your web
> browser as opposed to http://www.kites.org.  What is the secrete to doing
> this?  I am sure it is some sort of catch all CNAME but nothing that I have
> tried has worked.

in the zone file for that domain:

kites.org.	IN A xx.pp.yy.zz(ip of the host)

this will give you what you want provided your web server or that host is
configured well and is not filtering requests to port 80.

Joseph.