Hi le_gber, there is no such thing in DNS as a 'redirect'.
A CNAME record is defining an ALIAS name to some other name. And somewhere that aliasing has to end at a real A record.
So having a direct A record in the first place instead of a CNAME is not bad per se, as it would probably save additional lookup overhead.
All records of a domain must be defined in that domain's authoritative zone, so for the two domains involved there are two different zones files, and just defining a foreign 'domain.com.' record within another domain's (domain.co.uk) zone, as you suggest, would have no effect as this would not be seen anywhere.
So what your customer did on his 'domain.com' end looks good to me.
Now that user requests for domain.com end at your HTTP-server, it is up to your HTTP server to handle these, perhaps by setting a HTTP 301 re-direct to avoid duplicate web content problems.
Another way so solve this could be to let the domain.com A record point to a HTTP-server at your customer's end and your customer sends HTTP 301 redirects to your HTTP server.
So to summarize:
- the .com domain has its own DNS records in an own zone file
- the .com name can either point to your server or the customer's
- he who gets that pointer has to set up a HTTP redirect to the other domain then
Hope that helps.
Kind regards,
R.
