On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 04:50:10PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to domain name servers, so I may ask stupid questions, but I hope > someone can help me. I have just set up a nameserver which works fine. > Now I want to forward my www to my internet provider, but there is a > slight problem. My page does not have an ip, but is in fact a directory on > the server of my provider. This is my situation: > > /etc/bind/db.dorpsnet contains the lines: > local A 192.168.1.254 > www A 194.235.126.184 > > so when I acces www.dorpsnet.nl (local name) I succesfully reach the > provider's home page. But unfortunately, my homepage is at > 194.235.126.184/~sebas > > Can you give me a hint or some tips how to manage this? Can this be done > with DNS, or do I have to install another package? no, DNS is only responsible for translating domain names into IP addresses, it knows nothing about web server directories, or even about web servers period. i think what you would do is run apache or some small httpd that simply redirects to http://194.235.126.184/~sebas -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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