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Rob Spurlock

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May 3, 2001, 11:26:43 AM5/3/01
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Hello all. I have a domain name I need to point to another domain name. The problem is that the domain name I want to point to is being hosted on a Name Based hosting server, so the IP address points to the first host on the list. How do I point a the domain name ( domaina.com) to the real domain name (domainb.com) so when they point their browser to domaina.com it will bring up domainb.com? Help?

If you want to look at the real domain names, they are: www.theculinarymessenger.com which should point to www.intheweedz.com. Thanks in advance.

Rob Spurlock
Lock-Net Internet Services
1.800.216.8006
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Rob Spurlock

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May 3, 2001, 1:29:27 PM5/3/01
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Yes, but the problem is that the IP address for the site is shared by 30
other sites. So if I point it to the IP address, the server brings up the
first domain on the list, which isn't intheweedz.com. Any other
suggestions?

Thanks!

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Truong" <kev...@ece.uci.edu>
To: "Rob Spurlock" <rspu...@lock-net.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: Help with Alias


> Find out what IP address www.intheweedz.com has and point
> www.theculinarymessenger.com to that IP address.
>
> -kevin

Klinkefus, David S

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May 3, 2001, 1:44:27 PM5/3/01
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You can make up an entry like:
www.inteweedz.com CNAME www.culinarymessenger.com

OR

Do you have control over the reverse delegation?
If you do, why don't you put in multiple PTR entries?
For example:
7 PTR www.intheweedz.com
7 PTR www.theculinarymessenger.com
7 PTR www.whatever.???

All 3 should answer to the correct name/IP number.


Dave K.


Lee M Dobson

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May 3, 2001, 1:48:15 PM5/3/01
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Rob,

You can use a simple CNAME to do this in the "theculinarymessenger.com"
zone:

www IN CNAME www.intheweedz.com.

Sincerely,
Lee M Dobson
VA Linux Systems.

Joseph S D Yao

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May 3, 2001, 1:57:58 PM5/3/01
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On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:20:14PM -0500, Klinkefus, David S wrote:
> You can make up an entry like:
> www.inteweedz.com CNAME www.culinarymessenger.com

Is this the direction he wanted to go???? I'll have to go back and
look.

> OR
>
> Do you have control over the reverse delegation?
> If you do, why don't you put in multiple PTR entries?
> For example:
> 7 PTR www.intheweedz.com
> 7 PTR www.theculinarymessenger.com
> 7 PTR www.whatever.???
>
> All 3 should answer to the correct name/IP number.

NO. Don't bother. This doesn't affect forward lookup, and if it
affects reverse lookup, it's only to confuse it.

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Rob Spurlock

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May 3, 2001, 3:13:20 PM5/3/01
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This seems to be closer to the answer I was looking for. No matter how I
added a CNAME etc, it always went to the default IP address and thus the
default domain name which isn't the one I wanted to point to. Is there a
way to just add the header info to httpd.conf and point it to the domain I
want?

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "amh" <ma...@nullus.net>
To: "Rob Spurlock" <rspu...@lock-net.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: Help with Alias


>
> There's no way for this to work without your hosting location adding
headers
> for "domaina.com" to their webservers. "Virtual" hosting is all done by
host
> headers.

Joseph S D Yao

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May 3, 2001, 3:27:17 PM5/3/01
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On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 02:59:07PM -0400, Rob Spurlock wrote:
>
> This seems to be closer to the answer I was looking for. No matter how I
> added a CNAME etc, it always went to the default IP address and thus the
> default domain name which isn't the one I wanted to point to. Is there a
> way to just add the header info to httpd.conf and point it to the domain I
> want?
>
> Rob

You need to run a Web server at the bounce location, and have a META
header line that redirects browsers to the desired target location.

If you don't know how to do this, look for all the keywords in that
last sentence at www.apache.org.

Brad Knowles

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May 3, 2001, 5:21:14 PM5/3/01
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At 2:59 PM -0400 5/3/01, Rob Spurlock wrote:

> This seems to be closer to the answer I was looking for. No matter how I
> added a CNAME etc, it always went to the default IP address and thus the
> default domain name which isn't the one I wanted to point to. Is there a
> way to just add the header info to httpd.conf and point it to the domain I
> want?

You're going about this the wrong way. You want to set up a
virtual server within Apache, and that would be a question you should
be researching on www.apache.org.

--
Brad Knowles, <brad.k...@skynet.be>

/* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum <ro...@ihack.net> */
/* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */
/* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */
/* */
/* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */
/* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */

dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}'


Rob Spurlock

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May 3, 2001, 5:23:50 PM5/3/01
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So in other words, I can't really do this with Bind and DNS. I need to fix
it in Apache. Sounds like the easiest thing to do is to take intheweedz.com
and move it to it's own IP address, then do the DNS pointers for
theculinarymessenger.com to point to the new IP address or name.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Knowles" <brad.k...@skynet.be>
To: "Rob Spurlock" <rspu...@lock-net.com>; "amh" <ma...@nullus.net>;
<bind-...@isc.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2001 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: Help with Alias

Brad Knowles

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May 3, 2001, 5:52:54 PM5/3/01
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At 5:16 PM -0400 5/3/01, Rob Spurlock wrote:

> So in other words, I can't really do this with Bind and DNS. I need to fix
> it in Apache. Sounds like the easiest thing to do is to take intheweedz.com
> and move it to it's own IP address, then do the DNS pointers for
> theculinarymessenger.com to point to the new IP address or name.

You could do that, but unless that is the one and only web site
served by the machine with that IP address, you'd still need to set
up a virtual server in Apache -- only this time, instead of tying it
to a particular domain name, you'd be tying it to a particular IP
address.

I suggest that you do this within Apache, and quit trying to get
the DNS to do something it simply doesn't do.

Owen McShane

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May 4, 2001, 4:10:36 AM5/4/01
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rspu...@lock-net.com said:
> Is there a way to just add the header info to httpd.conf and point it
> to the domain I want?

It's off topic, but simply make sure your Apache config looks something like this, along with the other 30 sites:

NameVirtualHost 64.213.51.13

<VirtualHost 64.213.51.13>
DocumentRoot /webroot/www.intheweedz.com
ServerName www.intheweedz.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 64.213.51.13>
DocumentRoot /webroot/www.intheweedz.com
ServerName www.theculinarymessenger.com
</VirtualHost>

Owen

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Rob Spurlock

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May 4, 2001, 10:21:57 AM5/4/01
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This fixed my problem. Thanks so much for the help.

Rob Spurlock


----- Original Message -----
From: "Owen McShane" <omcs...@vianetworks.co.uk>
To: "Rob Spurlock" <rspu...@lock-net.com>
Cc: <bind-...@isc.org>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 3:47 AM
Subject: Re: Help with Alias

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