DNS - URL forwarding

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Rajeev Sajja

We have a W2K DNS setup with some static hosts that do
internal DNS for websites that are hosted internal to our
network. We have forwarding setup to the DNS of the ISP
for everything else.

I have a request to redirect the www record of a internal
website to a specific page of a website.

I know that the host record redirects to an IP address by
doesn't allow me to put a complete URL?

For example:

www goes to 10.0.2.10/internal.html.

How do I setup the above on my DNS box?

Thanks!

Rajeev Sajja
(e-mail address removed)
 
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Deji Akomolafe

You don't do this in DNS. You do it on the webserver. Post back if you use
IIS and need help with how to accomplish this in IIS. Or better yet, post to
the IIS newsgroup

--
Sincerely,

Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE MCSA MCP+I
www.akomolafe.com
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Yesterday? -anon
 
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Guest

Do you know why it can't be done in windows DNS

It is ridiculous that you have to setup a name in DNS to point to a web site in IIS that is only setup to redirect you to another URL, especially when you can setup a CNAME or other record to do this with many of these DNS hosting services

Thanks.
 
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Kevin D. Goodknecht [MVP]

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Mark said:
Do you know why it can't be done in windows DNS?

It can't be done with any DNS, URL forwarding is not a DNS function.
It is ridiculous that you have to setup a name in DNS to point to a
web site in IIS that is only setup to redirect you to another URL,
especially when you can setup a CNAME or other record to do this with
many of these DNS hosting services.

Even the services you talk about, have to go through a web server to do
this.
 
H

Herb Martin

Mark said:
Do you know why it can't be done in windows DNS?

It is ridiculous that you have to setup a name in DNS to point to a web
site in IIS that is only setup to redirect you to another URL, especially
when you can setup a CNAME or other record to do this with many of these DNS
hosting services.

What's ridiculous about it? This is the way that DNS
works. Always has (maybe it won't do this always though.)

How long have you been doing DNS? Given this level of
experience, why are you so surprised at this reality?

CNAME's don't do what you think -- you are either not
specifying your problem correctly or don't know how it
is normally solved.
 

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