| Brian Cryer 2005-09-30, 6:28 pm |
| "Steed" <gavsteed@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1128073275.751197.14320@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Is there any way to alias a top level domain?
>
> My boss has set me the challenge of being able to type
> www.google.local(for example) into a web browser and be taken to
> www.google.com. He wants this to be done on-the-fly as it were so all
> websites with a .local TLD would work so editing the hosts file is out
> of the question. He says its a 5 minute job using a DNS Server but
> wont tell me anymore, my brain is melting...
>
> Considering Im a total newby when it comes to this Im completely
> stumped, any ideas out there?
I'm not a DNS expert, but I have dabbled a little.
Firstly, do you have access to the DNS server that all your workstations are
using? If the answer is no then forget it (I'm not sure why your boss would
want this anyway).
If you can configure the dns server then what seems to work for me on my
test server, is to create a new forward lookup zone called local and then
add a new cname "google" pointing it to google.com. This then means I can
ping google.local and it gets mapped to google.com. However, this would
still require you to add an entry for each domain that you want mapped, so
it doesn't give you much over going the hosts file route. Whilst it would
allow you to create new mappings as you go, this would still be a manual
process. I don't think you can simply map .local = .com.
Hope this helps somewhat.
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Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian
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