Hi,

At my hostongprovider I can/need to maintain my own zonefile. Currently everything is set like the following code-block. This means you can access my domain with http://what_you_would_like.domain.com. The problem is that due to some scripts and my statistical software I would only like to allow http://www.domain.com ! All other pre-fixes should get an error ' can find host'.

Only how? Or where can I find usefull references?

Mmm just change * to www

Change the following line:


- wil

Change or add ? Thanks in advance.

Change if you only want people to access via www.domain.com

Add if you want to allow people to access via *.domain.com

- wil

Didn't I say that 3 hours earlier?...there is an echo

Sorry, I've been logging in on the move for the past few days, so I haven't really kept track of threads very well. I'm home now, so things should start to get better :)

- wil

Is there a way to check it everthing should work? I changed * into www, but now (about 24 hours later) nothing happend changed yet. I'm dying to test this out. Please don't let me I'll need to wait longer

Last time I tried to fix this visitors saw the default page of my hoster if they entered something else then www. I'm wondering if this will happen again?!

Did you restart the dns server after making the change?

My hoster says if the FAQ: every 2 hours it's updated.

Did you update your zonefile's serial number? That would mean changing this:
2002031317
to something like:
2002060101
Which is the recommended format of:
YYYYMMDDnn (nn being a revision number)

Adrian

No, I didn't update the file personally. Just used an online form at the client website of my hoster. Today (4 days later) the settings are changed. (I used dnsstuff.com to check the stettings.) Now my domain cannot be reached at http://blablabla.domain.com or so on........

Only http://www.domain.com and http://domain.com work now, but how only to allow www.domain.com ?!

Why do you only want www?....you may lose traffic if people find domain.com to be dead.

You'd need to remove:

domain.com. A 217.115.192.11

....to only allow www

Isn't that line for email or ...... ? I don't know, just asking. Don't want to do something wrong and be offline till the next update - 4 days

PS 1 And why is it "domain.com." (watch the secon dot.)
PS 2 mail.domain.com alsow works.. Can I remove mail alsow? Or is this for my mail

>>Isn't that line for email or ...... ?<<

No.

>>PS 1 And why is it "domain.com." (watch the secon dot.) <<

Thats just the way the zone file has to be formatted. Emails also require @ changing to .

>>PS 2 mail.domain.com alsow works.. Can I remove mail alsow? Or is this for my mail <<

What do you think?

I'm still not sure

Why? Because I have a website at another hoster, where eveything works fine, but http://mail.domain.com doesn't exists online.

You use mail.domain.com in your email client...it just keeps things clear. You can remove the mail line if you want I guess, but then you'll need to change the MX line as currently it is using mail.