Quick DNS Question

[svenmontgomery]

Hey all,

I am trying to sort out the dns for our website/domain. Currently leaving off the

http://www from

the start gives a page cannot be displayed.

My problem is my Active Directory domain is the same as our web domain name so am worried if I change the entries pointing domain.com to the primary domain controller im going to squish my Active Directory domain in some way.

Any help for this DNS newbie appreciated,

 

[egodette]

Just add an entry for

http://www in

DNS and point it to the web address.

 

[svenmontgomery]

currently have a

http://www record..

what I need to solve is when people dont use a

http://www in

the url ie

http://domain.com

 

[elgrandeperro]

So when you ping

http://www.yourdomain.com

and yourdomain.com you get the same IP?

If so, I suspect your web server is using virtual hosting and the alias name isn't known. Typically, you rewrite this to the

http://www name.

 

[stfaprc]

do you have an A record for your domain.com ?
if not , add one that is the ip address of your

http://www.domain.com

 

[elgrandeperro]

If you get "page not displayed", I believe it must have an A or CNAME, else you would get "server not found" instead. That is why I ask if it resolves to the same IP.

I think you are getting to the webserver, but it is using virtual hosting and can't match the ServerName, or equivalent in the IIs world, I only know apache.

So typically 2 ways to solve, add a ServerAlias so it accepts the

http://www and

non-

http://www name,

or add a rewrite rule so it rewrites the non-

http://www name

to the

http://www name.