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[ilpadrino]

Is it possible to register a domain name with my DNS server and then forward the address of the website to the actual host, which is a totally different DNS?

This way I get the MX, but can redirect for the website which I'm unable to host.

thanks, joe.

 

[MattWray]

Yes, just set up a zone for the Domain you speak of. Add a host record for

http://www and

point it to the IP of the external web server....

Thanks,

Matt Wray
MCSE, MCSA, MCP, CCNA

http://www.sss-steel.com

 

[ilpadrino]

thanks, mattwray.. as you are an MCSE, can this be done on the same DNS server running for an internal Win2k domain? basically i would have separate zones, one for my internal domain and one for the external domain that forwards

http://www to

an outside server address, and also forwards the mx in to my email server?

 

[MattWray]

Yes that can be done on your internal DNS server. Ours has 4 forward lookups to redirect restricted sites, such as Ebay, back to our Intranet site.
You cannot forward traffic in though. You must have a public DNS server to do that. The changes you make will only affect your internal network. Otherwise you will have to contact your ISP and have them add records to their DNS server...

Thanks,

Matt Wray
MCSE, MCSA, MCP, CCNA

http://www.sss-steel.com

 

[ilpadrino]

thanks. i'm trying to find a solution to have mx come to me, but

http://www go

elsewhere. i guess that means i need a public DNS and have to inform my ISP for their records.

 

[MattWray]

Correct.

Thanks,

Matt Wray
MCSE, MCSA, MCP, CCNA

http://www.sss-steel.com

 

[ricpinto]

ilpadrino: Matt deserves a star.. never mind I'll do it for you.

 

[ilpadrino]

thanks for the responses. what if the actual host uses some type of virtual ip addressing? the re-directing works on my test dns server, but the page that comes up is some other page from the hosting company. here's an example:

nslookup yahoo.com returns 66.218.71.198. when you put "

http://66.218.71.198"

into the browser, you don't get the page you'd like for yahoo.

similarly, when i do nslookup for

http://www.mycompany.com,

the returned ip address is my hosting company, but the page returned for the ip address is not actually our site.

joe.

 

[ChrisAC]

DNS only takes care of name to IP address resolution (or the reverse). Once the requests hit the correct server/IP address then that web server must have a virtual server set up to serve web pages for your domain.

If a hosting company has a web server with 10 different web sites on it and you put the IP address in a browser, which web site does it serve? The default one of course, not your site. If you put the web site address into the browser then a request is sent to the server for that particular site and so the pages can be served from the correct directory on the server.

Chris.


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Chris Andrew, CCNA, CCSA
chris@iproute.co.uk
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[ilpadrino]

so for the previous discussions on this thread, my approach is wrong, running DNS to get the MX but redirecting to an outside a host or

http://www for

web pages on the domain.

 

[ChrisAC]

It doesn't matter who runs DNS for the domain or what you point your MX or web site at.

Whoever, hosts DNS, point the MX record at your mail server, wherever that is and point the

http://www record

at your web server or your hosting companies web server. You don't have to point a record at something in the same domain. You can point

http://www.yourcompany.com

to webserver.hosting4u.com.

Chris.


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Chris Andrew, CCNA, CCSA
chris@iproute.co.uk
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