From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 14 20:38:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fbsd01.granitepost.com (fbsd01.granitepost.com [209.150.104.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE28A37B422 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:38:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sager (chi-qbu-nva-vty16.as.wcom.net [216.192.161.16]) by fbsd01.granitepost.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA08136 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 00:31:43 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: From: "Clarence Brown" To: Subject: bind redirect webpage Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 23:44:42 -0400 Message-ID: <001101c01ec7$58d73d40$fc6d140a@granitepost.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm not where I usually collect my email, and mailing lists, so please reply directly to this email address... Quick question, my reference book is back in the office. I need to redirect a web page to a new site. In the file db.domain_name there is an A record as follows: www IN A ###.###.###.### where the ###.###.###.### points to the ip address of the appropriate web server. Now the client wants to point to a new web site (not at my location) that has been setup for a new version of their name. The goal is that typing www.original_name.com will bring up the web page for www.new_name.com without the user needing to do anything. Since I'm not controlling the new site I don't want to use an ip address because the isp of the new site might change the ip. Can I simply change the A record from pointing to an ip address to pointing to the new name? Like the following: www IN A www.new_name.com Maybe it should be a CNAME instead of an A record? Like I said, I'm not in the office now, and can't access my Bind reference book. Also, again, please respond directly to this address since I'm not subscribed to this list on this machine. Thanks for the help... Cla. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message