Pointing one subdomain to another server.

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snowblindnz

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Hi guys.

We have our server, which has its domain pointing at it and is running fine (the name servers are pointed at this server aswell. i.e. ns1.ourdomain.com, ns2.ourdomain.com).

We now need to set up a subdomain (members.ourdomain.com) to point to an external server which is hosting an ASP.net application.

I have tried just adding a A record in the DNS management for the domain, pointing 'members' at the external ip address. but it doesnt seem to be working.

Any ideas on how to get this going?

Thanks.
 
A related question, but going in the opposite direction.
I have vps running a my website. And I'm going to host someone else suddomain. So the other party is going to point the suddomain of their website to my ip address.
The question is how do I setup this external subdomain on my server with direct admin?
I created a subdomain like normal but I don't think that is what I want.
 
You want to create it as a regular domain probably. Make sure the user you create it under has the ip that the other DNS server is using for it.
 
Or just create NS records for the subdomain on the other server, for the subdomain, pointing to the nameservers you use on your server.

Jeff
 
How to Point a Subdomain To External Host

snowblindnz said:
Hi guys.

We have our server, which has its domain pointing at it and is running fine (the name servers are pointed at this server aswell. i.e. ns1.ourdomain.com, ns2.ourdomain.com).

We now need to set up a subdomain (members.ourdomain.com) to point to an external server which is hosting an ASP.net application.

I have tried just adding a A record in the DNS management for the domain, pointing 'members' at the external ip address. but it doesnt seem to be working.

Any ideas on how to get this going?

Thanks.
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You can create NS records for this to pointing your subdomain to external server,however I would recommend you to A records pointing to your subdomain. This is easiest method and you can make as many external subdomain and install different CMS on it.

The overall procedure was to creating subdomain from hosting account & adding subdomain A records on domain account, than pointing that subdomain to hosting ip address.

Reference :http://www.ehowportal.com/point-subdomain-host/
 
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