Re: Website Lookup without www.

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From: Kenneth Porter (shiva.blacklist_at_sewingwitch.com)
Date: 03/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 08:36:53 -0800

"Michael Turner" <michaelt@microplus.co.uk> wrote in news:#roG090EEHA.3404
@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl:

> I have a website and DNS server hosted in our internal system, the system
> works fine however I now have the need to do lookups with out the www. My
> webserver is on a seperate machine if this makes a difference.
>
> for example I have the following setup
>
> Forward Lookups
> - mydomain.co.uk
> (same as parent folder) Start of Authority
> [6],dns.domain.local., admin.domain.local
> (same as parent folder) Name Server
> dns.domain.local
> www Host
> ip address of the webserver
>
>
> I can connect with http://www.mydomain.co.uk
> but not with http://mydomain.co.uk
>
> what am I doing wrong?

You need an A (Host) record for the domain itself that's the same IP as the
web host.

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