Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

2022-10-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 13 Oct 2022, Tomas Kuchta wrote: Why bother with redirect, just define A record for both foo.com and www.foo.com if you want to keep it as Wes suggested. And get rid of @ name if you do not need it. Tomas, It's all corrected. The @ record points to the web site host's IP address,

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

2022-10-13 Thread Tomas Kuchta
Why bother with redirect, just define A record for both foo.com and www.foo.com if you want to keep it as Wes suggested. And get rid of @ name if you do not need it. -T On Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 08:32 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, wes wrote: > > > you're missing the MX record from

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

2022-10-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, wes wrote: you're missing the MX record from this list. it definitely exists, so the fact that you're not listing it here suggests that your info from your DNS hosting provider is incomplete. Wes, Come to think of it, perhaps before I changed registrars, there was an MX

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

2022-10-10 Thread wes
On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 10:44 PM King Beowulf wrote: > On 10/10/22 13:53, Rich Shepard wrote: > > I want to add another DNS record for my web host, one that allows access > to > > the site using https://appl-ecosys.com in addition to the current > > https://www.appl-ecosys.com. My long chat with

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

2022-10-10 Thread King Beowulf
On 10/10/22 13:53, Rich Shepard wrote: > I want to add another DNS record for my web host, one that allows access to > the site using https://appl-ecosys.com in addition to the current > https://www.appl-ecosys.com. My long chat with a namecheap tech didn't > provide me with the answer. > > Here's

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

2022-10-10 Thread wes
On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 1:53 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > I want to add another DNS record for my web host, one that allows access to > the site using https://appl-ecosys.com in addition to the current > https://www.appl-ecosys.com. My long chat with a namecheap tech didn't > provide me with the

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

2022-10-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, Randy Bush wrote: A Record@ 1.2.3.4 A Recordmail1.2.3.4 A Recordwww 3.4.5.6 Could I add: CNAME @ 3.4.5.6? no. that is not legal syntax Randy, Namecheap supports URL Redirect (Unmasked Forwarding), "This record is

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

2022-10-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, Randy Bush wrote: see my later message using MX foo A 1.2.3.4 foo MX 42 mail.foo mail.foo A 3.4.5.6 www.foo CNAME foo When I look at my DNS records at namecheap I see the record type, host, value (IP address) and the time-to-live.

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

2022-10-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, Randy Bush wrote: A Record@ 1.2.3.4 A Recordmail1.2.3.4 A Recordwww 3.4.5.6 Could I add: CNAME @ 3.4.5.6? no. that is not legal syntax Thought so. Rich

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

2022-10-10 Thread Randy Bush
> A Record @ 1.2.3.4 > A Record mail1.2.3.4 > A Record www 3.4.5.6 > > Could I add: > CNAME @ 3.4.5.6? no. that is not legal syntax

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

2022-10-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, Randy Bush wrote: Then I lose my mail server, yes? foo A 1.2.3.4 foo MX 42 mail.foo mail.foo A 3.4.5.6 www.foo CNAME foo I'm still not following you. Now I have: A Record@ 1.2.3.4 A Recordmail1.2.3.4 A Record

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

2022-10-10 Thread Randy Bush
> My reading about CNAME suggests it is used to map multiple host names to the > same domain name. well, more to the same A record > I want mail to us...@appl-ecosys.com to come to the office IP address, but > access to the web site as https://appl-ecosys.com to go to the web host's IP >

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

2022-10-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, Randy Bush wrote: How can I allow web site visitors to access it without the 'www' prefix? foo A 1.2.3.4 www.foo CNAME foo Randy, My reading about CNAME suggests it is used to map multiple host names to the same domain name. As that's not what I

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

2022-10-10 Thread Randy Bush
> Then I lose my mail server, yes? foo A 1.2.3.4 foo MX 42 mail.foo mail.foo A 3.4.5.6 www.foo CNAME foo

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

2022-10-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, Bill Barry wrote: Looks like you are pointing appl-ecosys.com at your office, you will have to give that up to point it to your website. Bill, Then I lose my mail server, yes? I suppose that the web site will need to remain as www.appl-ecosys.com because I don't host it

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

2022-10-10 Thread Bill Barry
On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 3:53 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > I want to add another DNS record for my web host, one that allows access to > the site using https://appl-ecosys.com in addition to the current > https://www.appl-ecosys.com. My long chat with a namecheap tech didn't > provide me with the

Re: [PLUG] Adding another DNS record

2022-10-10 Thread Randy Bush
> How can I allow web site visitors to access it without the 'www' prefix? foo A 1.2.3.4 www.foo CNAME foo

[PLUG] Adding another DNS record

2022-10-10 Thread Rich Shepard
I want to add another DNS record for my web host, one that allows access to the site using https://appl-ecosys.com in addition to the current https://www.appl-ecosys.com. My long chat with a namecheap tech didn't provide me with the answer. Here's a summary of the current DNS records (IP