Also note that other workarounds will solve the same problem in a
better
way.
Care to enlighten me as to what those workarounds would be?
If all the use cases for the CNAME are for http traffic, just configure
an http server/load balancer/etc. under your control to return a 302 or
301 redirect back to the client browser and you maintain control if
needs change in the future.
1. Point DNS A record for shop4water.com to an IP of a webserver under
your control...
2. Use insert your favorite webserver here (using URL Rewrite rules,
perl, etc.) to send a redirect back to the browser to direct them to the
shop4water.hostedbywebstore.com URL.
Depending on whether you want to preserve the URL or not can vary the
type of redirects that you will be configuring but that is fairly simple
to setup on a variety of well known http servers.
Also - why is it a registrar can do a CNAME only but we mere mortals
can't? In fact documentation from Amazon (it is apparently their web
store I've since learned) suggests doing it at registrar so I'll
probably
go that route but I'm wondering why it should work there but not on
one of
my delegated name servers.
-Original Message-
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users-bounces+jlightner=water@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of
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Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 12:41 PM
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Subject: Re: CNAME only zone?
On Friday 09 December 2011 10:25:36 Lightner, Jeff wrote:
Is it possible to create a zone file that only contains a CNAME?
As already answered, no.
The request I got is to create a CNAME to point shop4water.com to
shop4water.hostedbywebtstore.com.
You can ask your registrar if they can/will do this in the parent
com. zone. I have seen ugliness of this type from either Network
Solutions or register.com before, not sure which.
We own shop4water.com - hostedbywebstore.com is something external
that we don't own.
Do note that hostedbywebtstore is not the same as hostedbywebstore;
we're sticklers for precise spelling.
Also note that other workarounds will solve the same problem in a
better way.
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