DNS to redirect URL

[snootalope]

Anyone know a way to redirect a url using dns?

I've got a deal here where I need to redirect host.ourdomain.com to sites.google.com/oursite

I've done some less complicated redirects using cnames before, like host.ourdomain.com -> host.theirdomain.com but I'm not sure on this one beings I need to drill down further in the redirected url (/oursite/yada/yada). I've been messing with this for a bit now but it's not looking promising..

 

[paladin256]

I don't believe you can do what you want the the way you want. DNS converts name to IP. I would make a 1 page site for host.ourdomain.com that redirects to sites.google.com/oursite.


Hope this helps.

 

[Howler3043]

I am not sure that this will help you but I am going to give it a shot. I ran into a similar issue at work and we were able to solve it by creating a new Forward Lookup Zone then manually creating the new record (Both A and Cname). It is a slightly messy way to do it however it was the only way we were able to get it work.

Hope this is helpful to you =).

 

[Steve Bowman]

did you get this worked out?

do you host the original site localy or is it hosted?

depending on the answer you have several options on how to get this working the way you want.

Steve Bowman
Independent Technology, Inc.
CA, USA

 

[snootalope]

Howler, not a bad idea... I might play with this a bit.

Steve, nothing worked out yet. The site is not local, it's actually a google site.