How to setup DNS to work without the "www" on shared hosting?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a1lq67$pp5 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Gustavs Avotins <gustavs_a at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Barry Margolin <barmar at genuity.net> wrote in message 
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>> You have to tell the hosting service all the names that can be used to
>> refer to the virtual server, so they can put it in the server
>> configuration.
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>They are ignorant bitches:(
>
>How about this:
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>domain.com A 12.12.12.12 (my home comp, redirects to http://www.domain.com)
>www.domain.com CNAME server0012.isp.com (the hosting comp)

Yes, the redirect should work fine.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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