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<DIV><U><FONT color=#800080><A href="http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/Rewrite">http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/Rewrite</A></FONT></U><A href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/misc/rewriteguide.html"></A></DIV>
<DIV><BR>I hope this helps with the intial question since this at the application layer.</DIV>
<DIV>While this may help with the original question, this is now off topic.</DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Jeff Lightner <jlightner@water.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Pablo Arturi <parturi@bairesweb.com>; "Binmakhashen, Latif" <Latif.Binmakhashen@omnicare.com>; BIND Mailing List <bind-users@isc.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Friday, April 24, 2009 10:30:46 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> RE: URL Redirection via DNS<BR></FONT><BR>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Short answer: No</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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.)</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Minor Rant: Why don’t web developers know how to do simple URL redirection and quit asking DNS Admins to do it for them?</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> bind-users-bounces@lists.isc.org [mailto: bind-users-bounces@lists.isc.org ] <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Pablo Arturi<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Friday, April 24, 2009 10:18 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Binmakhashen, Latif; BIND Mailing List<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: URL Redirection via DNS</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Or it's too much complex to me, or you're terrible wrong in concepts.</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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?</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Hi guys,</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Is it possible to setup DNS to redirect URLs in the address bar of an IE?</SPAN></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>