Dynamic website address
Owen McShane
omcshane at vianetworks.co.uk
Wed Dec 3 10:45:55 UTC 2003
Hi,
you can't point an A record at a URL.
You would need to just have:
catalystevents.co.uk. IN A 205.214.89.240
And then the webserver admin would alias catalystevents.co.uk to the /~catevent directory on the server.
I don't know what you mean about a "Dynamic website address"
Owen
> I have not come across this issue before, as all the websites we host have
> statically assigned IP addresses, making A record
> implementations/modifications easy.
>
> I have just been asked to point the A record for a domain on our name
> servers from its original IP address (195.224.179.85) to the following
>
> 205.214.89.240/~catevent/
>
> I'm not convinced the A record field will welcome this string and would be
> grateful for some advice regarding this kind of implementation in BIND 8.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Pete Walker
> AD Software Solutions
>
>
>
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