URL Redirection via DNS

[Dan Farrell]

Latif, 

If you provided records / wildcard records  that matched all domains to
be rewritten, you could resolve the domain name of  _all_ rewritable
traffic the IP of a particular webserver which could then forward to 
the right URL using webserver scripting and an HTTP mechanism like
Location headers or Refresh meta-tags. This would show the new
redirected URL in the header, but to do so, you yourself must respond
to the HTTP request. Since as has been said the URI of the URL (eg
"/~me/mydocs/doc34.html") won't exist on the server you would either
have to do rewriting or look into whether you could use scripting in a
401 Location not Found page.

You could also do this without bind, with a firewall, if you had one
in front of the clients whose URLs you wanted to redirect, by
redirecting all web traffic to your redirecting webserver.  


On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:03:00 -0400
"Binmakhashen, Latif" <Latif.Binmakhashen at omnicare.com> wrote:

>  
> Ok guys, thanks
> That confirms the answer to my question.
>  
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> From: bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org
> [mailto:bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Knapper
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 10:56 AM
> To: BIND Mailing List
> Subject: Re: URL Redirection via DNS
>  
> This is not what DNS does.  It matches an IP with a domain name.
> Changing the URL needs to be done from within the web-page.
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 07:38, Binmakhashen, Latif
> <Latif.Binmakhashen at omnicare.com> wrote:
> Jeff
>  
> Thank you for wording your reply more professionally. That's exactly
> what I was trying to find out since I've never tested it. 
> So in this case, the CNAME mike.mydomain.com will display the web page
> of Ralph.mydomain.com but the URL at the address bar will remain
> mike.mydomain.com and there is no way to get DNS to display the actual
> URL rather than continue to display the CNAME?
>  
> I hope my question is clear to you guys!
>  
>  
>  
> From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:jlightner at water.com] 
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 10:31 AM
> To: Pablo Arturi; Binmakhashen, Latif; BIND Mailing List
> 
> Subject: RE: URL Redirection via DNS
>  
> Short answer:  No
>  
> Longer answer:  Only FQDN can be aliased with CNAME.   That's not
> technically a redirect.   (e.g. mike.mydomain.com being CNAME to
> Ralph.mydomain.com is OK - however you can not make
> mike.mydomain.com/landingpage do anything because "/landingpage" is
> not part of the FQDN so has nothing to do with DNS.)
>  
> Minor Rant:  Why don't web developers know how to do simple URL
> redirection and quit asking DNS Admins to do it for them?
>  
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> From: bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org
> [mailto:bind-users-bounces at lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of Pablo Arturi
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 10:18 AM
> To: Binmakhashen, Latif; BIND Mailing List
> Subject: Re: URL Redirection via DNS
>  
> Or it's too much complex to me, or you're terrible wrong in concepts.
>  
> DNS has nothing to do with URL redirection, that's a web server job,
> or again, it's too much complex to me. :) What would be an example of
> what you want to do?
> 	Hi guys,
> 	 
> 	Is it possible to setup DNS to redirect URLs in the address
> bar of an IE?
>  
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