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Title: DNS Tweaking
Post by: Yvick on April 09, 2005, 08:02:30 AM

Hello everyone,

Here is my problem:

In order to have proper e-mail delivery I added a virtual domain containing my primary e-mail suffix popless-it.com.

In order to retrieve my e-mail from my hosting provider, I modified mail.popless-it.com to resolve to my providers POP3 server public IP address: works like a charm ...

However, when I rolled out the same solution to access the administration console of my provider (admin.popless-it.com), no go ! My provider must use HTTP headers to route HTTP requests: the header being replaced by the ip address specified in the server-manager console, I get another page altogether ...

Is there any way to tweak SME's DNS to specify a delegate DNS server for specific adresses ?

Thanks,

Yvick

Title: DNS Tweaking
Post by: Yvick on April 09, 2005, 08:15:08 AM

Please take no notice of the problem above, I made a mistake ...

The question still stands though, for example:

Is it possible to specify an alias instead of an IP address in the host area of the server-manager ...

Thanks !

Yvick

Title: DNS Tweaking
Post by: DarkMirage on April 10, 2005, 04:39:32 PM

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Is it possible to specify an alias instead of an IP address

Yes it is, instead of creating a host entry for some ip, you could specify a cname record in your dns zone.
I'm not sure where tinydns keeps it's zones.. Or how you should/could edit those.

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in the host area of the server-manager ...

Nope, but I guess you figured that out already