[NTLUG:Discuss] DNS To Virtual Host Question

Jay Urish j at unixwolf.net
Wed Oct 11 09:39:46 CDT 2006


I see it.. You need to have catapult ONLY as the host... Not a fully 
qualified domain name.
catapult should be a cname to ideastream.com

I bet catpult.ideastream.com.ideastream.com will resolve right now :)


Dennis Daupert wrote:
> I am taking my very first swing at configuring DNS; I am setting up my  web site on a Virtual server. I am part way there, but having issues I  don't quite understand after all the reading I've been able to do so  far.
>   
>   I'm using www.everydns.net for domain name services. I am trying to setup these two virtual domains:
>   
>   www.ideastream.com
>   catapult.ideastream.com
>   
>   www.ideastream.com does resolve, although
>   http://dnsreport.com says there's a slight misconfiguration (but maybe I'll get to that down the road.)
>   
>   My main concern is catapult.ideastream.com doesn't resolve at all.
>   
>   dnsreport.com shows lots of red when I put that URL in.
>   
>   I've tried to follow the examples given in everydns' FAQ pages for A  and CNAME and all, but I've not been able to puzzle it all out yet.  Here's a tally of the setup I've got:
>   
>   Host: catapult.ideastream.com
>   Type: CNAME
>   Value: ideastream.com
>   TTL: 3600
>   
>   Host: ideastream.com
>   Type: A
>   Value: 65.254.63.231
>   TTL: 3600
>   
>   Host: www.ideastream.com
>   Type: CNAME
>   Value: ideastream.com
>   TTL: 3600
>   
>   Hopefully I've made a glaring error that jumps out to someone who knows this stuff.
>   
>   /dennis
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