DNS newbie question...

[fernan82]

I've been running a Windows 2000 advanced server for a while now to host my website and i'm trying to setup my own DNS server for my domain name... my questions are the following:

1) Can anybody point me to a simple tutorial on how to accomplish that... i've done searched this forum for a while now and found many related posts but nothing specific on how to setup the server for my domain name...

2) After I setup the DNS server will i be able to redirect a sub domain to a folder on my website, for example if i want to redirect forums.mydomain.com to

http://mydomain.com/forum/

is that possible..?

 

[june1980]

Question 1 -

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=300386#2

Question 2 - It works like this.... you set the default openning page in IIS. This will be the page that everybody see's when they open your site. On the openning page, you'll have a link connected to whatever site you would like. So the answer is yes, you can do that.

I'm a little fuzzy about the second question. Did I answer it?

 

[No1shome]

On Question 2:
You can do a redirect through a virtual web server, but not through DNS.
DNS can only point an address to a IP address , not to a URL.
So, to accomplish this, you would:
Point forums.domain.com to IP address 1.2.3.4
On Server 1.2.3.4 you would redirect forums.domain.com to '

http://mydomain.com/forum/

This make sense?
*Mick*