DNS Record Help

how to get http://mywebsite.com to show up

[melaniehayes]

I switched over to a reseller account, so now it's my job to setup DNS records, and I know one of them will allow my site to show up with or without the www. Can someone tell me what record it is, and how to set it up?

Thanks,
Melanie

[Slade]

this is what nslookup shows for my domain:

> set type=all
> mydomain.tld ns1.host.tld
Server: ns1.host.tld
Address: 209.51.159.76
mydomain.tld   MX preference = 0, mail exchanger = mydomain.tld
mydomain.tld
    primary name server = ns1.host.tld
    responsible mail addr = root.ns1.host.tld
    serial = 1014393537
    refresh = 28800 (8 hours)
    retry  = 7200 (2 hours)
    expire = 3600000 (41 days 16 hours)
    default TTL = 86400 (1 day)
mydomain.tld   nameserver = ns2.host.tld
mydomain.tld   nameserver = ns1.host.tld
mydomain.tld   internet address = 209.51.159.66
mydomain.tld   internet address = 209.51.159.66
ns1.host.tld internet address = 209.51.159.76
ns2.host.tld internet address = 209.51.159.76

What control panel/OS?

[melaniehayes]

HSphere control panel, unix.
The web site is <bleeeeep>
That works, but not without the www.

Mel

[edited by: rcjordan at 2:41 pm (utc) on Oct. 24, 2002]
[edit reason] no references to your site, please. [/edit]

[jdMorgan]

Mel,

We're not allowed to post links to our own sites here, in order to prevent abuse by "forum name-droppers".

I haven't used the control panel you mentioned, but you need to add an "A Record" to your Zone file, like so:

ftp.yourdomain.com. IN A 123.456.789.0 
www.yourdomain.com. IN A 123.456.789.0 
yourdomain.com.    IN A 123.456.789.0 

Don't forget the trailing periods!

HTH,
Jim

[dingman]

Nothing at all wrong with Jim's method, but I use CNAMEs, eg,

@    IN   A    192.168.254.4 
    IN   HINFO  "p166mmx" "Debian 3.0" 
www   IN   CNAME  @ 
mail  IN   CNAME  @ 
ns   IN   CNAME  @ 
ns2   IN   CNAME  andrew 
andrew IN   A    192.168.254.1 
    IN   HINFO  "Athlon 750" "Debian 3.0" 

Two things worthy of note abaove. First, @ is a stand-in for whatever domain name the zone file is being used for. I write my zone files that way because it lets me do fun things like using the same zone file for foo.com, foo.net, and foo.org. Second, you can't use a CNAME unless there is an A record that points to whatever name you use to the right of the CNAME label.

I don't know jack about any control panel software, so I can't help with that. The above is excerpted from a working Bind 9 zone file, though obviously it's my internal view. (Since I use the @ trick, I didn't even have to remove my domain name :))