Friendly DNS name for internal URL

[grabrail]

Hi

Is there a way to change a url in the following format

https://servername:<portnumber>

to a freindly name like

http://servername

or

http://applicationname

in Windows 2000 DNS

Thanks

 

[itsp1965]

Port numbers unfortunately are independent of name resolution so regardless what you call it, you still apply the port number.
If you want to call your site

http://myapp:<portnumber>

you can create a CNAME entry in DNS which serves as an alias to an existing hostname.

Hope this helps.

 

[billberge]

If I may hop in on this discussion I have a question regarding this. Is it possible to have the cname record point to an IIS directory?

 

[markdmac]

Bill,

First off, whatever you set as the default web site for a machine will be what shows up when you just type

http://servername

What exactly are you trying to do? It sounds to me like you are trying to host multiple web sites on a box. What you will want to use is something called a host header. That will allow you to assign multiple names to a single server and have each name go to a specific web site while all use the same IP address.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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