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Fri Oct 10 08:13:57 PDT 2003

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 10:08:35AM -0500, Joshua Kronengold <mneme at io.com> wrote:
> Warlord writes:
> >the easiest way to do this is to have your provider
> >modify the DNS zone file so that it points to the
> >new domain name.
> That actually doesn't make any sense.  I'm not sure it's even wrong.
> But sticking a redirect (nothing to do with DNS, Warlord -- whole
> different layer). onto the root page of the old site which points to
> the new one is probably a good idea, yes.

He was probably thinking of a CNAME, which is effectively a 
DNS-based redirect.

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