Hi, Jeremy. Thanks for your reply. GoDaddy.com provides DNS service for me...I don't use the "advanced management option", which I think is what you're speaking of when you wrote...
"set the "A record" to your static IP and you would be set (outside of IIS and/or router settings on your side)." I've tried to make sense of the DNS stuff on my Win 2000 Server, but haven't been able to sort it out. I couldn't find enought "starter" info, to get me on the right track, so I just gave up on it, not even knowing if I needed that unless I was handling all my DNS internally, i.e., using my server as a DNS server. Couldn't sort out the "Forward Lookup Zones" and "Reverse Lookup Zones" and determine how, and if, that applied to what I was doing with having my domains masked and forwarded. That was just one less thing for me to figure out at the time... When I first set up the server I needed to get the site back online quickly...they had been down for 3 weeks due to lack of cooperation from a local ISP who was dragging his feet about getting my co-located server back online...finally I'd had enough and just bought a business DSL line and have never looked back. I've always wanted to know more about handling my own DNS, but just never had the time or info on the level I needed it. How would the "Advanced DNS Management" your speaking of impact my situation now? If I set up "C-Names" at GoDaddy.com or UltraDomains.com, or even on my server, would that allow me to forward to actual domain names instead of http://000.111.222.333/cfdocs/xxxx/indexcfm ? Final question, is there a "...for Dummies" book that helps the unintiated make sense of all this? Thanks for your time and help. Rick -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Bruck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:43 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Possible to name Application, save name, then rename Application? Rick, The best solution is to have a DNS server. We just found out about UltraDomains.com -- http://www.ultradomains.com. They will let you cheaply register/transfer a domain and they will also let you host/set your "A records" and "mx records" in their DNS server for NO extra charge. Many of us that host sites on our own "DSL/Cable Servers" are very impressed with the site. So you could register/transfer the domain to them, and set the "A record" to your static IP and you would be set (outside of IIS and/or router settings on your side). They will even let you set sub-domains on the fly. This is a very cool site -- No I don't work for them or get paid anything. I am truly impressed that they have cheap costs for buying domains and include DNS hosting as a part of it -- the way all will go sooner or later. Jeremy Jeremy Bruck, VP of Technology ::MfgQuote 2690 Cumberland Parkway SE Suite 510 Atlanta, GA 30339 TEL: 678.556.2929 FAX: 678.556.2980 www.mfgquote.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 1:52 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Possible to name Application, save name, then rename Application? I know that makes no sense, but here's what's happening. I'm name a site that serves as a dynamic site for multiple companies. I need to name the Application and set variables by the CGI.HTTP_Referer variable. No problem so far. However, since the site is blind forwarded to my server, the HTTP_Referer variable changes once it's working off my server. When it comes from the company that handles my DNS, it comes as http://www.bodafordhomes.com, from which I can do a CFIF CGI.HTTP_Referer contains ".com" and that tells me that the homepage has been requested from somewhere besides my server and the ID of the company needs to be determined for the dynamic site to be setup. I have http://www.bodafordhomes.com stored in the database from which to ID the company and choose it's data. The problem comes when the pages are served from my server. They use URL's like http://77.88.99.00/cfdocs/rea/index.cfm , so the new CGI.HTTP_Referer can't be used to determine company ID any longer and the Application can't user the CGI.HTTP_Referer any longer as a name, because the Application name has to stay the same to keep the variables tied to the Application... I need to store the first CGI.HTTP_Referer variable, then when the Application.cfm page is consulted, I can recall that saved original HTTP_Referer variable as some other variable and rename the Application.cfm with it. There's the question: How to save that variable, since I can't use application or session variables because on the second trip to the Application.cfm page, the Application will not have been defined and therefore an error occurs. Is there some variable that can be created after the first Application is named, then continue to be used until the Application is renamed? (I have got to learn how to do my own DNS, then I probably wouldn't have this problem. But I only have one server, and I need two for DNS service...don't I?) If I can get past this part, I've got the rest of this "one site for many companies" licked... If this is all crazy and someone else has a solution for this situation, I'm all ears...uh...or eyes... 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