-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It can be used for many things. Before worrying about TXT record type (some interesting things can be done with it, like SPF and Active Directory, yes AD stuffs all sorts of things into DNS), learn the rest. Trust me. Oreilly Bind and DNS book. There is a newer edition out, but the one I have is still awesome (actually it was William many years ago who suggested it to me :)
Mitchell Brown wrote: > Thats what I thought - see, with my hosting providor they have a "dns > for dummies" kinda thing where you can just set it to "URL Redirect" or > "URL Frame" and stuff like that. But when I got hosting, my DNS is now > served up via Plesk, and I can't figure out how to do it. One of the > entry types is "TXT" though - whats that for? > > On 9/24/06, *William Astle* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > Mitchell Brown wrote: > > Hey > > > > What does one have to do to make a DNS record that will redirect a > > subdomain (or even a regular domain) to a complete other website? > > Lets pretend I want to have > > > > http://mitchellbrown.ca <http://mitchellbrown.ca> redirect to > > http://freesuperduperwebhosting.com/members/free/~mbgb14/public_html > > What would I do? I don't know much about different types of DNS > records :S > > > > Oh, and would it be possible to do this while keeping the > > "mitchellbrown.ca <http://mitchellbrown.ca> > <http://mitchellbrown.ca>" part in the title bar? > > You don't do that in DNS. DNS doesn't work that way. > > You need to point it at a server with, say, Apache, then configure > Apache to do the redirect. > > If you want to keep "mitchellbrown.ca <http://mitchellbrown.ca>" in > the location bar, you would > have to arrange to have the real site load up inside of a frame (or > equivalent) or futz around with proxying. > > -- > William Astle > finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for further > information > > Geek Code V3.12: GCS/M/S d- s+:+ !a C++ UL++++$ P++ L+++ !E W++ !N w--- > !D !M PS PE V-- Y+ PGP t+@ 5++ X !R tv+@ b+++@ !DI D? G e++ h+ y? > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines ( http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > > -- > pub 1024D/9091C422 02/05/2006 Mitchell Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > Primary key fingerprint: 812B 94BC EA0D 345A CC1C 2ED9 F7F6 5CCF > 9091 C422 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFFsS+wRXgH3rKGfMRAjfgAKCJyqYGgsq6IjlvC/x84MXGyqPUHQCdG2Pk 1QvQRRfiKwjbD87T8vUeE+I= =MNYC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
