DNS to resolve URL

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Hello,
Have a 2k Server with DNS running. I want to direct a
Domain to URL with out using another IP off the stack.
After looking through Everything in DNS I could not find
how to redirect besides to an IP. Any help on this issue
would be great. Thank you John
 
J> After looking through Everything in DNS I could not find
J> how to redirect besides to an IP.

That's good, because that's the right answer. DNS is not the tool for this
job. Where you store your web sites locally in the filesystem, and publishing
HTTP redirections so that web browsers that fetch one page then automatically
fetch another, are both matters for your content HTTP server.
 
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John said:
Hello,
Have a 2k Server with DNS running. I want to direct a
Domain to URL with out using another IP off the stack.
After looking through Everything in DNS I could not find
how to redirect besides to an IP. Any help on this issue
would be great. Thank you John
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A URL "redirect" is actually an IIS function. You configure a site, say
www.domain.com, but in it;s properties to what resource to display (such as
where is the html file located), you select "redirect to another URL", and
type in the URL, such as www.otherdomain.com.

You maybe able to fudge DNS by creating a "www" CNAME under your domain.com,
and for the name, give it www.otherdomain.com.

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Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
 
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