Re: Web forwarding in BIND

2010-05-21 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , Hoover Chan wrote: > Thanks for this and all the other input. > > When you say "regular Web browser", it's safe to conclude that Firefox, IE > and Safari are all included in this category? If so, then yes, that is the > target audience. Right. I think the only place where NAPTR

Re: Web forwarding in BIND

2010-05-21 Thread Hoover Chan
Thanks for this and all the other input. When you say "regular Web browser", it's safe to conclude that Firefox, IE and Safari are all included in this category? If so, then yes, that is the target audience. I have an odd (and frustrating) situation where I manage the DNS for a Web service tha

Re: Web forwarding in BIND

2010-05-21 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 08:30:47AM -0400, Chris Buxton wrote a message of 26 lines which said: > Another such solution (and simpler) would be SRV records, It maps a domaine name to a set of {domain name, port}, not to URL (with the path and so on) :-) So, no, you still need NAPTR if you want

Re: Web forwarding in BIND

2010-05-21 Thread Chris Buxton
On May 21, 2010, at 4:27 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 05:18:10PM -0700, > Hoover Chan wrote > a message of 15 lines which said: > >> A pointer please to information on how to use BIND to "translate" a >> domain name to a target URL. For example, www.domain -> >> htt

Re: Web forwarding in BIND

2010-05-21 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 05:18:10PM -0700, Hoover Chan wrote a message of 15 lines which said: > A pointer please to information on how to use BIND to "translate" a > domain name to a target URL. For example, www.domain -> > http://www.someother.domain/folder1/folder2/index.html. Unlike what m

Re: Web forwarding in BIND

2010-05-20 Thread Chris Buxton
On May 20, 2010, at 8:34 PM, Hoover Chan wrote: > Heh, thanks for the humor. > > I'm used to having control over both Web server and DNS server and the way I > normally handle these things is via an Apache virtual host configuration. > However, I'm under pressure to lose control of DNS and hand

Re: Web forwarding in BIND

2010-05-20 Thread Gary Wallis
Hoover Chan wrote: I'm new to this list but have been having trouble looking for information on this topic. A pointer please to information on how to use BIND to "translate" a domain name to a target URL. For example, www.domain -> http://www.someother.domain/folder1/folder2/index.html. Than

Re: Web forwarding in BIND

2010-05-20 Thread Hoover Chan
Heh, thanks for the humor. I'm used to having control over both Web server and DNS server and the way I normally handle these things is via an Apache virtual host configuration. However, I'm under pressure to lose control of DNS and hand it over to a company like Go Daddy or Network Solutions

Re: Web forwarding in BIND

2010-05-20 Thread Bryan Irvine
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Hoover Chan wrote: > I'm new to this list but have been having trouble looking for information on > this topic. > > A pointer please to information on how to use BIND to "translate" a domain > name to a target URL. For example, www.domain -> > http://www.someoth

Web forwarding in BIND

2010-05-20 Thread Hoover Chan
I'm new to this list but have been having trouble looking for information on this topic. A pointer please to information on how to use BIND to "translate" a domain name to a target URL. For example, www.domain -> http://www.someother.domain/folder1/folder2/index.html. Thanks in advance. -