Re: Pointing a zone to dynDNS host?
- From: geocoo@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 12 Dec 2005 07:17:31 -0800
Ace Fekay [MVP] wrote:
> In news:1134337601.159163.297020@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> geocoo@xxxxxxxxx <geocoo@xxxxxxxxx> stated, which I commented on below:
> > Hi I own for example, 'domain.com' and have access to a windows 2003
> > DNS server which I have delegated for domain.com.
> >
> > I have a dymanic DNS host account on dyndns.org and an entry eg
> > 'host.dyndns.org', this host will be my server for domain.tld.
> >
> > I want everything in the domain.com zone to ultimatley resolve to the
> > IP address of host.dyndns.org.
> >
> > I have added a CNAME for '*' in domain.com Which works for
> > [anything].domain.com but obviousley, I cannot CNAME domain.com
> > becuase you cannot have a CNAME record for a name which has any other
> > type of record in the zone, and as a zone name is implicitly has
> > NS,SOA etc. I get an error if attempting to create the CNAME.
> >
> > What you can imagine I want to know is if anyone knows how I can get
> > domain.com resolving to host.dyndns.org, otherwise I will have to
> > spend more money (static IP/DynDNS premium).
> >
> > PS. I already know I can add a website on a static web server
> > redirecting domain.com to host.dyndns.org but that only works for
> > HTTP, I was hoping to achieve it through DNS so that it would work
> > universally for the name, I am one of those who tends to emit www. for
> > speed when accessing a website/host across many protocols.
> >
> > I also have thought about dynamically updating the delegated server
> > myself effectivley eliminating the need for dynDNS, however I am not
> > sure enough of DNS protocol to ensure the resoloution is updated,
> > dynDNS is a professional service and I'm sure a Perl script that I
> > could write would be far less efficient.
> >
> > Thanks for your time, I have scoured endless posts and all seem to end
> > without an answer, I don't see why the DNS protocol standards should
> > not allow this, to me it is a valuable featre.
>
> Have you tried to simply put in the IP address of host.dyndns.com?
That would not achieve pointing domain.com to the value of
host.dyndns.org at any given time except the present, becuase
host.dyndns.org changes, that's what dynamic means.
I have given in and spent $25 on Custom DNS from dynDNS.org it's not
that expensive.
.
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