How get ex: url.com to work instead of www.url.com

[Paul Richardson]

I am not to much in dns but could
on tell me in a short way and not to
technical words :-) how would I go
about this.

Thanks.

Paul

[Cricket Liu]

All you need to do is assign the address of your Web server to
url.com:

url.com. IN A <IP address of Web server>

cricket

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[Scott C. McGrath]

Paul Richardson wrote:
>
> I am not to much in dns but could
> on tell me in a short way and not to
> technical words :-) how would I go
> about this.
>

> Thanks.
>
> Paul

Add a A record in the SOA. This works for broken mailers
ie MS SMTP Gateway which do not always process the MX records
properly.

Example

MyMach.MyNet.com MX 10 MyNet.com.
MyNet.com A 10.10.10.1

This creates a mail exchanger record with a priority of 10
and a A record with the IP Address of the desired host.

This is the same hack CNN.COM uses to make http://cnn.com work

P.S. For the convienience of web browsers PLEASE also set up the
standard WWW.MyNet.com.

[Becki Kain]

Isn't this a bad thing - making the domain name an A record?

beckers

[Kenneth Penttinen]

Becki Kain wrote:
>
> Isn't this a bad thing - making the domain name an A record?
>

No...you have to make an A record for it somewhere or it will never no
where to go...

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[Cricket Liu]

On 23 May 1997 14:46:21 -0400, bec...@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Becki
Kain) wrote:

>Isn't this a bad thing - making the domain name an A record?

No, just as long as the domain name has an SOA and NS records.

[André Pirard]

bec...@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Becki Kain) wrote:

>
>Isn't this a bad thing - making the domain name an A record?

No worse than an MX, would it.

André.