Null hostname entry for DNS ie: http://somehost.com How?

[lifegard2]

How do I create an entry in DNS (Windows NT 4) such that users don't need the

http://www for

the hostname? Essentially, I want

http://somehost.com

to work the same as

http://www.somehost.com.

How do I do this? Thanks!

 

[bcastner]

One particular hostname, or all hostnames?

In the first case the HOSTS file can be used, with its ability to alias an entry:

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

http://www.somehost.com

somehost.com somehost

In the latter case under Internet Options, Advanced, enable in-line autocompletion for entries.

 

[lifegard2]

I think with what you are asking, one hostname.

Here's the sitch. We just registered a new domain name that points to a website hosted on an internal server. On our internal DNS servers, I have A records for

http://www.newdomain.com

pointing to 192.168.xxx.xxx.

I would like to have my users be able to enter either

http://www.newdomain.com

or

http://newdomain.com

in their browser and get the same results. Only trouble is, I'm not sure what kind of record in DNS to create to make this happen as it does not happen natively with WinNT 4 DNS.

Should I create an A record with the hostname of *?

 

[Freemansweb]

If your talking intranet, just create another A record for newdomain.com

http://fwwebs.com