Matthew Hunter writes: >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. Well, yes -- I was thinking of that myself, but depending on how a server is constructed, this doesn't always change the URL. ("Canonical name" in, say, Apache will do this, but that's because it does a self-redirect if it finds a client is coming in off the wrong URL). -- Joshua Kronengold (mneme at io.com) "I've been teaching |\ _,,,--,,_ ,) --^--him...to live, to breathe, to walk, to sample the /,`.-'`' -, ;-;;' /\\joy on each road, and the sorrow at each turning. |,4- ) )-,_ ) /\ /-\\\I'm sorry if I kept him out too late"--Vlad Taltos '---''(_/--' (_/-'