Question regarding CNAME or aliases with bind 9.2.3

[Lou Goddard]

DNS only knows about hostnames and is not able
to return URLs ( well there are TXT records but
lets not delve.)

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
Behalf Of Ali Eghtessadi
Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 2:02 AM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
Subject: Question regarding CNAME or aliases with bind 9.2.3


I would like to setup an entry in a zone file ( I am running bind on
solaris ) so when someone types :

http://host1.mydomain.com they will get redirected to a different page
with the address :

http://www.remotedomain.com/abc/def/ghi$.startup

Is this possible using bind?  I did setup a cname in the zone file as
follow:

$ORIGIN mydomain.com.
host1 IN CNAME www.remotedomain.com/abc/def/ghi$.startup

but it does not seem to work.  Any help is very much appreciated.  I
manage mydomain.com but the remote domain belongs to a different
company.