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Title: domain name and linking
Post by: neXus on November 16, 2006, 17:45:33 PM
Hi all
If you got a domain name for you site www.thissite.com and that has your address and name servers.

You have a subdomain subdomain.thissite.com
now you get another domain name - anotherdomain.com and you want to link that to the subdomain -> subdomain.thissite.com what do you need to do/change setup?
Title: domain name and linking
Post by: Sam on November 16, 2006, 18:15:27 PM
You want to link anotherdomain.com to subdomain.thissite.com ?

Depends what you mean by link. I will therefore make an assumption and say a CNAME is what you want.
Title: Re:domain name and linking
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on November 16, 2006, 19:07:59 PM
I think its an alias.

Some hosts will not directly support an alias though as Ive just found with GoDaddy. I need to get their deluxe package to do that.
Title: domain name and linking
Post by: Sam on November 16, 2006, 19:33:36 PM
Thing is nige lots of hosts offer services that arent really anything to do with dns. They just do it programatically and give the user a nice interface to make it look like its DNS.
Title: Re:domain name and linking
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on November 16, 2006, 19:35:50 PM
Quote from: Clockd 0NeI think its an alias.

Some hosts will not directly support an alias though as Ive just found with GoDaddy. I need to get their deluxe package to do that.

Roflmao... google!

Zoneedit.com Ive used them for years in the past, havent used them recently but yeah... upto 5 domains hosted for free, with subdomains, mx records, cname (also known as aliases ;)), Aname.

Simple. :)

Why buy a really expensive package just for a service that someone provides freely? :)
Title: Re:domain name and linking
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on November 16, 2006, 20:13:02 PM
Im not that bothered actually Rich, I only paid Ã,£50 for three years of hosting, with more bandwidth and space than I can shake a stick at.
Title: Re:domain name and linking
Post by: M3ta7h3ad on November 16, 2006, 20:38:01 PM
Quote from: Clockd 0NeIm not that bothered actually Rich, I only paid Ã,£50 for three years of hosting, with more bandwidth and space than I can shake a stick at.

lol true :) but never ever give em more money for a service they should provide for free with all their packages :) Same with limits on subdomains, hate reading that on a host. Its costs them no extra to do it, they just dont let you have more than 25 or something ridiculous. :(
Title: Re:domain name and linking
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on November 16, 2006, 22:38:20 PM
Doesnt a CNAME only repoint within the same domain?

What hes asking for is what I recognised as a different type of alias because the subdomain it points to is part of another domain. At least thats how I had it configured when I was using ETGlobal.
Title: Re:domain name and linking
Post by: neXus on November 16, 2006, 23:36:28 PM
ignore me i was being dumb with the url forwarding, sorted it
Title: Re:domain name and linking
Post by: Sam on November 16, 2006, 23:47:58 PM
Quote from: Clockd 0NeDoesnt a CNAME only repoint within the same domain?

Im not aware of any restrictions other than a CNAME cannot point to another cname, although Im sure in practice you could do so.
Title: Re:domain name and linking
Post by: Serious on November 17, 2006, 02:16:40 AM
Quote from: neXusignore me i was being dumb with the url forwarding, sorted it

Dont worry, they will probably ignore you anyway and be still arguing next month... ;)
Title: Re:domain name and linking
Post by: neXus on November 17, 2006, 13:04:29 PM
Quote from: Serious
Quote from: neXusignore me i was being dumb with the url forwarding, sorted it

Dont worry, they will probably ignore you anyway and be still arguing next month... ;)

IF the kids are happy let them play with it