Forward using CNAME record

[Gary Wallis]

Gary Wallis wrote:
> Henry Hartley wrote:
...
>>
>> In the second case, which is NOT working, I have a similar CNAME 
>> record but instead of web.me.com, it's on tumblr.com. So, I have this 
>> (this is the actual domain):
>>
>> www.ioanamorosan.com.  CNAME   ioanamorosan.tumblr.com.
>>
>> If you go directly to ioanamorosan.tumblr.com, the site loads, but if 
>> you go to www.ioanamorosan.com, you get a tumblr.com 404 error page. 
>> The browser still displays www.ioanamorosan.com in the address bar.
>>
>> So, is this a situation where web.me.com is set up to recognize 
>> www.example.com properly but tumblr.com is not? Or what?
>>
>> Should I be able to do what I'm trying to do?
>>


About your second case:

This is not about DNS but about HTTP. Site tumblr uses the incoming HTTP 
request to provide content. Since it does not know anything about 
"www.ioanamorosan.com" it returns the 404.

Cheers!
Gary