Again Dns Issue!

I've read lots of post in this forum about DNS issues but still I haven't figured out what my DNS problem is. Please help!

I'm running a WEB and DNS server out of home using a router. From outside you can access the website with the static IP and also the namservers for example ns1.xxxxxx.com and ns2.xxxxxx.com. What I want the public to access my website is just by xxxxxx.com and URL I think I'm really confused about the part where you have to create a Zone, Host, and ACNME Record. I duno if you need any clearer explaination of what my DNS issue is? thx. for helping

Tony

It's not permitted to have a CNAME record for the zone itself... So if you have records like:

www IN CNAME foohost.somedomain.com

which gets people to your web site, housed on foohost using name-based virtual hosting... you CANNOT do

@ IN CNAME foohost.somedomain.com

('@' being shorthand for "this" zone in a zone file.) You CAN do

@ IN A 1.2.3.4

with foohost's actual IP. AND then you must make sure your web server will realize that HTTP requests with a Hostname HTTP header of "domain.com" will be handled with the correct virtual host. (Since browser got a DNS resolution for "domain.com" it's going to use that literally in the hTTP header.)

If you're on apache, in the vhost you use...

servername www.mydomain.com
serveralias mydomain.com


[in mydomain.com zone file]
@ IN A 1.2.3.4
www IN CNAME foohost.whatever.com

If you're not name-based vhosting... then in DNS mydomain.com zone file:

@ IN A 1.2.3.4
www IN A 1.2.3.4

-c