On 05/07/14 23:32, Barry Margolin wrote: > In article <mailman.160.1399503258.26362.bind-us...@lists.isc.org>, > "Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng." <lkc...@ksu.edu> wrote: > >> Oh...I misread the question....guess DNAME isn't what's wanted.... >> >> just the apex to somewhere else.... >> >> Yeah...I currently just look up the name and enter A records. But, I've >> wondered if there was another record type that allowed it to detect address >> changes of the requested 'CNAME'....so I wouldn't have to. Especially, if >> the >> requested 'CNAME' is a name that is known to change its IP... > > Have the apex point to your own webserver, and have it send an HTTP > redirect to www.domain.com, which is CNAMEd to the third party domain. >
I mentioned that option...but it doesn't work so well for https://example.com (except maybe if they gave me their cert....though I have limited IPs - though the new appliance supposedly does SNI...) >> Either that...or come up with a way to script it. > > That's what we did when I was at Akamai. Their custom DNS servers have > an option to resolve the domain apex by looking up another name and > returning its IP. > -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Sr. Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users