DNS zone file configuration question

I am trying to do something out of the ordinary from what I usually do.
When I set up address records, they point to ip addresses such as:

www A 10.0.0.1

Let say, off site, someone has a web page set up at 1.2.3.4/~accountname
and I want to set up the www address record in the zone file to point to
this. Can this be done?

Thanks,
Greg

"Greg Baumgratz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I am trying to do something out of the ordinary from what I usually
> do. When I set up address records, they point to ip addresses such
> as:
>
> www A 10.0.0.1
>
> Let say, off site, someone has a web page set up at
> 1.2.3.4/~accountname and I want to set up the www address record in
> the zone file to point to this. Can this be done?

That's outside the realm of DNS possibility.

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Greg Baumgratz <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I am trying to do something out of the ordinary from what I usually do.
> When I set up address records, they point to ip addresses such as:
>
> www A 10.0.0.1
>
> Let say, off site, someone has a web page set up at 1.2.3.4/~accountname
> and I want to set up the www address record in the zone file to point to
> this. Can this be done?

Not in DNS.

You can create DNS-record for new virtual web server

www.domain.tld. IN A 10.0.0.1
name.domain.tld. IN CNAME www.domain.tld.

and then on the "www" host create virtual web server, which will
send just HTTP-redirect's:

Host: www
File: /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName name.domain.tld
ServerPath /name/
RedirectPermanent / http://1.2.3.4/~accountname/
</VirtualHost>

Users will use http://name.domain.tld/ URL for initial connection.

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Thanks for the quick responses - this is actually what I ended up doing.
I just wondered if I was missing something that could be done another way.

~Greg



Andrei Ivanov wrote:
> Greg Baumgratz <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>I am trying to do something out of the ordinary from what I usually do.
>> When I set up address records, they point to ip addresses such as:
>>
>>www A 10.0.0.1
>>
>>Let say, off site, someone has a web page set up at 1.2.3.4/~accountname
>>and I want to set up the www address record in the zone file to point to
>>this. Can this be done?
>
>
> Not in DNS.
>
> You can create DNS-record for new virtual web server
>
> www.domain.tld. IN A 10.0.0.1
> name.domain.tld. IN CNAME www.domain.tld.
>
> and then on the "www" host create virtual web server, which will
> send just HTTP-redirect's:
>
> Host: www
> File: /etc/httpd/httpd.conf
>
> <VirtualHost *:80>
> ServerName name.domain.tld
> ServerPath /name/
> RedirectPermanent / http://1.2.3.4/~accountname/
> </VirtualHost>
>
> Users will use http://name.domain.tld/ URL for initial connection.
>