If I understand things correctly: If your cheapie hosting account has a static domain name, set up a cname from your university domain to your cheapie domain. cname is usually used for domain to domain translation, A records are used for domain to IP address translation.
Louis. On Tuesday, November 27, 2012, Wilhelmina Randtke wrote: > I'm trying to get a subdomain of my university's domain pointed at content > on a cheapie hosting account. To do this, I can get main campus to put in > a CNAME record with the IP address matching where the DNS for my cheapie > hosting account is currently located in the cheapie hosting company's > system. The problem is, this IP will periodically change, meaning main > campus IT will have to be involved periodically down the line in order to > cut and paste the new IP into their system, and meaning that the hosted > services could go unavailable for a few days when this happens. > > The main campus uses GoDaddy's DNS which is set in stone, and the cheapie > hosting in question is Dreamhost but any other cheapie service would do. > > Am I doing this the hard way? *How would you go about getting a subdomain > of your university's URL to point at your cheapie webhosting account? * > > Subdomain forwarding with masking then storing content at a random URL but > having it appear to be on the university's subdomain does not work, because > this causes problems responding to XML queries. > I am able to run a server in my office or the building with a static IP, > but I don't want content to live on an in-house server. Could I use this > to catch things coming to the IP, then redirect to the cheapie hosting > account? > Is there a way to go from GoDaddy's DNS management system to point at the > nameservers for the cheapie hosting company, the same way you would do to > host a domain? > > -Wilhelmina Randtke >