How can I point mydomain.com to mydomain.dyndns.org?

Hi,

I'm moving to an ISP who won't give me a static ip address.

I currently have a domain, (e.g.) mydomain.com which I can access using
that name. I also have several friends and colleagues who access this
domain.

I'm aware that I could get mydomain.dyndns.org and use that instead,
but is there a way of pointing mydomain.com to mydomain.dyndns.org and
have the dyndns bit be transparent?

I currently used ZoneEdit to point mydomain.com to my Static IP
address, but this must use a numeric ip address.

Thanks in advance

eno

On 27 Oct 2006 01:41:40 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm moving to an ISP who won't give me a static ip address.
>
>I currently have a domain, (e.g.) mydomain.com which I can access using
>that name. I also have several friends and colleagues who access this
>domain.
>
>I'm aware that I could get mydomain.dyndns.org and use that instead,
>but is there a way of pointing mydomain.com to mydomain.dyndns.org and
>have the dyndns bit be transparent?
>
>I currently used ZoneEdit to point mydomain.com to my Static IP
>address, but this must use a numeric ip address.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>eno

A cname (alias) entry in the zonefile should work. Point it at the
A-record which details the mydomain.dyndns.org and away you go.
--
John Naismith

Thanks for your reply John, but I don't understand.

Where is the zonefile? And what is the A-record.

John Naismith wrote:

> On 27 Oct 2006 01:41:40 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'm moving to an ISP who won't give me a static ip address.
> >
> >I currently have a domain, (e.g.) mydomain.com which I can access using
> >that name. I also have several friends and colleagues who access this
> >domain.
> >
> >I'm aware that I could get mydomain.dyndns.org and use that instead,
> >but is there a way of pointing mydomain.com to mydomain.dyndns.org and
> >have the dyndns bit be transparent?
> >
> >I currently used ZoneEdit to point mydomain.com to my Static IP
> >address, but this must use a numeric ip address.
> >
> >Thanks in advance
> >
> >eno
>
> A cname (alias) entry in the zonefile should work. Point it at the
> A-record which details the mydomain.dyndns.org and away you go.
> --
> John Naismith

On 27 Oct 2006 03:37:24 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>Thanks for your reply John, but I don't understand.
>
>Where is the zonefile? And what is the A-record.

Your zonefile for the domain is presumably held by zoneedit.com. Their
FAQ is here - http://www.zoneedit.com/doc/faq.html and covers all this
quite well (including web forwarding).

I've never had anything other than static IP addresses all the way
back to Demon tenner a month days so I can't help you with dyndns I'm
afraid.
--
John Naismith

Thanks again for that John, you've already helped me enough.

Cheers

John Naismith wrote:

> On 27 Oct 2006 03:37:24 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
> >Thanks for your reply John, but I don't understand.
> >
> >Where is the zonefile? And what is the A-record.
>
> Your zonefile for the domain is presumably held by zoneedit.com. Their
> FAQ is here - http://www.zoneedit.com/doc/faq.html and covers all this
> quite well (including web forwarding).
>
> I've never had anything other than static IP addresses all the way
> back to Demon tenner a month days so I can't help you with dyndns I'm
> afraid.
> --
> John Naismith

On 27 Oct 2006 05:43:26 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>Thanks again for that John, you've already helped me enough.

No worries. I suspect you might need to move your nameservers from
zoneedit to dyndns (assuming they do this?) to get it to work. The
webforwarding from zoneedit involves something called a "hidden
A-record" so I'm not at all sure a cname would have the desired
effect. Best to ask zoneedit - they've always been helpful enough when
I asked them things :-)
--
John Naismith

Thanks again for that John, you've already helped me enough.

Cheers

John Naismith wrote:

> On 27 Oct 2006 03:37:24 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
> >Thanks for your reply John, but I don't understand.
> >
> >Where is the zonefile? And what is the A-record.
>
> Your zonefile for the domain is presumably held by zoneedit.com. Their
> FAQ is here - http://www.zoneedit.com/doc/faq.html and covers all this
> quite well (including web forwarding).
>
> I've never had anything other than static IP addresses all the way
> back to Demon tenner a month days so I can't help you with dyndns I'm
> afraid.
> --
> John Naismith

After a brief look at ZoneEdit, it looks like I might be able to do
everthing through them.

Apparently, one of their clients, installed as a service on my server,
will directly update the IP address in the ZoneEdit account - no need
for DynDNS!

I'd initially thought of dyndns because my Belkin Pre-N Router has a
specific setting for DynDNS in it.

John Naismith wrote:

> On 27 Oct 2006 05:43:26 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
> >Thanks again for that John, you've already helped me enough.
>
> No worries. I suspect you might need to move your nameservers from
> zoneedit to dyndns (assuming they do this?) to get it to work. The
> webforwarding from zoneedit involves something called a "hidden
> A-record" so I'm not at all sure a cname would have the desired
> effect. Best to ask zoneedit - they've always been helpful enough when
> I asked them things :-)
> --
> John Naismith

On 27 Oct 2006 06:20:06 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>After a brief look at ZoneEdit, it looks like I might be able to do
>everthing through them.
>
>Apparently, one of their clients, installed as a service on my server,
>will directly update the IP address in the ZoneEdit account - no need
>for DynDNS!

That's a result then :-)
--
John Naismith

On 27 Oct 2006 06:20:06 -0700, in uk.telecom.broadband ,
(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>Apparently, one of their clients, installed as a service on my server,
>will directly update the IP address in the ZoneEdit account - no need
>for DynDNS!

For reference, you can do exactly the same with dyndns, who, as far as
I can see, offer essentially the same service.

>I'd initially thought of dyndns because my Belkin Pre-N Router has a
>specific setting for DynDNS in it.

Yeah, mine too. I have two domains on the same IP though, so it was
easier to use ddclient on my linux server.
--
Mark McIntyre