Do i need to add host name to DNS server [closed] - iis

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I am hosting and application in IIS. the application is a INTRANET APPLICATION.
Already the server has 2 application hosted in it with host names
site1.k.com and site2.k.com
k.com is my domain name.
I have give host name for my site as
site3.k.com
Do i have to make DNS entry for this.

If you have a wildcard dns entry such that <anything>.k.com goes to your server, then you don't need a specific DNS entry for site3.k.com, but it might make things easier down the road if you have it.
Of course, if you don't have the wildcard set up, and you need to have the url for site3.k.com work, then yeah, it'd be required.
Now, you mention that this is intranet ... if you have a windows server configured to broadcast that it's name is site3 via WINS service, then you might get away with not having the DNS entry, but this behavior is not reliable, because WINS may or may not route to remote sites, depending on WAN and/or VPN configurations, and will generally be a pain in the ass for support.

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What do I need to provide, for someone to point their domain to my host? [closed]

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I have a host and my own domain, lets say: www.mysite.com, on this host I have created a site: sub.mysite.com
Another person owns www.domain.com and I need him to point the domain to sub.mysite.com, however I am going away tomorrow and would like to just leave him the details he needs in order to point www.domain.com to sub.mysite.com, what would those details be?
Thanks,
-Anton
The Name Server addresses, which can be found searching here:
http://who.is
edit:
Bear in mind that in addition to changing the name servers for the domain, you will also need change your [host's] server configuration to manage the traffic redirection.
Name Server addresses point to a server, not a domain. You want the name servers to match for your current domain and the domain you want moving. This means they will both find the same 'computer'. It is down to the 'computer' (server) to then provide the right files; in this situation, it is achieved by configuring the server to forward traffic arriving from 'newdomain.com' to 'sub.olddomain.com'.
If using the CPanel web management control panel, this is done in the 'Addon Domains' section:
Enter the domain to be pointed in the 'new domain name' field, then set the 'Document Root' field to point to the folder hosting the contents of your subdomain. (e.g. /public_html/sub)

Plesk Panel 11 www prefix not working [closed]

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i'm hosting websites from my customers using Plesk Panel 11, but when i try to reach a domain using the www. prefix, i get redirected to the Parallels Domain Default Page.
Customers keep their domain, but set the nameservers to mine, so i can manage the dns. In this way, my dns is always the master server. I already tried going to dns managing and reset the automatic www. prefix.
I have been working on this problem for two days already, and i really don't know what is going wrong.
Does anyone of you know a solution?
When you see "Domain Default Page" it's OK for new created subscription because it's a predefined content of site.
When you access site like www.domain.tld and see "Server Default Page" it's means that there is no "ServerAlias www.domain.tld" in last apache config file of domain.tld.
Last httpd config placed in /var/www/vhosts/domain.tld/conf/last_httpd.include
I suggest you to check domain name resolving for www.domain.tld and domain.tld and make sure that your web server is serve both domain names.

How to point two different domain names to a single website? [closed]

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I have on website but this site has no meaning full domain name but have good ranking on internet. I want to make this like this website will be pointed by two different domain names.
please suggest me that how can i do this. please give me easy steps for doing this.
Thanks
Under each of your domains you should have DNS settings so go there and put the same DNS for each domain or you can set DNS for the first on and redirection for the second one.
You can just setup DNS records for both domains to point to the IP of your server.
If you have virtual hosts configured on your server, you may need to create an entry for both domain names.

Domain forwarding or masking on local machine only? [closed]

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I'm sad to have to ask this question, but I'm not even sure of what to call what I'm trying to do, so Google isn't much help.
I'm doing some work on a company website from outside the company's network. Some of the assets on the site are loaded from a domain that is only visible from inside the company's network (QA) but there is a mirror of those assets on a public domain. How can I mask or forward requests to this internal domain (e.g.: http://qa.example.com/image.png) to the mirroring external domain on my laptop? (e.g. http://www.example.com/image.png). This is similar to what can be done using the host file for IP addresses. The reason I want to do this is so that the images aren't broken as I work on the site outside the office, and changing all the references in the web files is not an option. I'm on OSX Lion.
Again, sorry, dummy question, please don't flame :S
Thanks!
If the mirroring host (http://www.example.com) doesn't use host headers, you can do it through the host file, by mapping qa.example.org to www.example.com.
This will have your browser ask the www.example.com host for the http://qa.example.org/image.png. If www.example.com is configured to use host headers to control content served it will see the mismatched hostnames and fail to serve the content. In that case you need something more powerful.

Why do people hide their nameservers? [closed]

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Sometimes when I look up the WHOIS information for some domains, I see that their nameservers are forwarded to a service like ZoneEdit or Domain Control. I've never understood what the purpose is for doing this but I have a feeling it has to do with hiding the nameserver so someone who does a WHOIS on the domain can't figure out which service the site is hosted under.
Can someone please explain this to me?
There is all sorts of reasons someone may use a service like this:
Their webhost doesn't provide DNS. Especially true for people running their own VPS (you'd need 2, for backup DNS).
Their webhost provides DNS, but it is bad; it is slow, it drops out, whatever it may be.
They use multiple webhosts and want to keep all the DNS in one place.
I'm sure there's many more, but these are the obvious ones.
On a related note, for many web hosts you can look up the owner of the IP range that the web server is in if you want to know what company is ultimately hosting a website. This will turn up some info, though the company that owns the IP may not be the person that is being paid directly by a site owner for hosting on that IP.

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