----- Original Message -----
From: Emilio Perea
[mailto:eperea@walkereng.com]
To: DJBdns Mailing List
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Sent: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:01:21 -0800
Subject:
Re: Pointing a domain to a domain
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 10:26:38AM -0600, Jonathan Duncan wrote:
> > I have been playing around with Google Apps (google.com/a) and as part of
> > that I am setting up a domain name to point to my Google Apps. During the
>
> > setup, Google requires that I point the domain name to one of their domain
>
> > names. For example, they want
> >
> > www.drduncanchiropractic.com to point to ghs.google.com
> >
> > So I pinged ghs.google.com and got the IP to make this:
> >
> > +www.drduncanchiropractic.com:66.249.81.121:3600
> >
> > However, I am wondering, is there a way to poing the domain name to
> another
> > domain name like they requested? In case they change the IP of the domain
>
> > so that it will always be correctly pointing to whatever IP ghs.google.com
>
> > is using.
> >
> > As I have read, using the CNAME option is frowned upon.
>
> In this case, I think a CNAME is what you need, since you have no
> control over the IP address. Note that I get a different IP address,
> and that ghs.google.com is actually a CNAME for ghs.l.google.com:
>
> % dnsip ghs.google.com
> 64.233.179.121
>
> % dnsqr any ghs.google.com
> 255 ghs.google.com:
> 52 bytes, 1+1+0+0 records, response, noerror
> query: 255 ghs.google.com
> answer: ghs.google.com 604399 CNAME ghs.l.google.com
>
Another question if I may.
How would one accomplish a domain poiting to anther domain+directory?
IE.
www.domail.tld which points to www.domain.tld/directory
I had a request for this the other day.
-Dee
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