DNS Mydomin.com + .net

[adrenaline]

I have a domain that I host myself on my webserver and I do my own DNS. It is a .net we will call it mydomain.net I also own mydomain.com. Currently mydomain.com is doing nothing but I would like it to default to mydomain.net without using another IP address. I am not quite sure how to do this. I do host my own DNS so if that is a way of doing it I can do it I am just not sure how. Just to reiterate what I want is if you lookup www.mydomain.com or www.mydomain.net it will go to my www.mydomain.net website.

Any Ideas?
Thanks,
Mike

[wassy121]

You can't do this through DNS. However, you don't really want to. If you are just looking at doing webserving for both domains from the same folder, edit your httpd.conf, and add a ServerAlias directive. It would read:

ServerAlias www.mydomain.net mydomain.com www.mydomain.com

Where your ServerName is mydomain.net. Then you can make your DNS point both zones to the same IP, and apache will figure out which domain is which by the HTTP headers it sends.

Best,

Samuel

[adrenaline]

Do I still need to do a zone and forward and reverse lookup for the .com or can I just edit the httpd.conf file?

Mike

[cjl7]

Hi,

You can do this via DNS,

All you need is a CNAME to www.mydomain.com from www.mydomain.net

That would make any person trying to surf to www.mydomain.com end up at www.mydomain.net's ip-address (depending on your apache config, you could run separete web-sites or one site as described above)

That is if your DNS is serving the internet.

If you need some DNS hosting look at www.no-ip.com.

look at Virtual hosting on the www.apache.org site for more information about running multiple web-sites on the same server.

Cheers

Jonas

[adrenaline]

Hi,

You can do this via DNS,

All you need is a CNAME to www.mydomain.com from www.mydomain.net

That would make any person trying to surf to www.mydomain.com end up at www.mydomain.net's ip-address (depending on your apache config, you could run separete web-sites or one site as described above)

That is if your DNS is serving the internet.

My DNS is serving the internet. Can you be a little more specific about the cname?
Do I need a zone file for www.mydomain.com and a forward reverse lookup.?
or can I do like wassi said and alias it in the httpd.conf file and be done with it?

thanks
Mike

[cjl7]

Hi,

No it is now enough to edit the httpd.conf file, people (like me) needs to be able to find out where www.mydomain.com is -> DNS lookup...

In your main file for www.mydomain.net you have an alias for www, ftp and so on, right?

In there you put the following;

www.mydomain.com IN CNAME www.mydomain.com

This assumes that www.mydomain.com is something that your DNS knows about.

Reload the DNS and check with

host www.mydomain.com

Let me know if anything is unclear!

//jonas

[adrenaline]

Hi,

In your main file for www.mydomain.net you have an alias for www, ftp and so on, right?

In there you put the following;

www.mydomain.com IN CNAME www.mydomain.com

This assumes that www.mydomain.com is something that your DNS knows about.

Reload the DNS and check with

host www.mydomain.com

Let me know if anything is unclear!

//jonas

I will try this and let you know.
Thanks for the advice.
Mike

[adrenaline]

Jonas,
That didn't work, I was a little unclear about your cname deal
www.mydomain.com in cname www.mydomain.com

I tried it both ways
www.mydomain.net in cname www.mydomain.com
www.mydomain.com in cname www.mydomain.com

neither worked.

Do i need to create a zone too and if I do it your way what do I do about reverse lookups?

Mike

[adrenaline]

Jonas,
I created a zone file and it worked. I also copied my .net db file to .com so I have to db files one for .net and one for .com but the .com looks exactly like the .net and it worked. Thanks for your advice.

Cheers,
Mike