SubDomain Alias (Was: DNS help please)

[swordfox]

Hi,

Say I had a website hosted on a non Direct Admin server, lets call it www.otherserver.com and another hosted on a server running Direct Admin, www.daserver.com.

I want to host demo.otherserver.com on my server running Direct Admin.

I have added this to the DNS on the machine hosting www.domain1.com

demo.otherserver.com. A 202.0.0.1 (IP address of daserver.com)

I've added otherserver.com as an alias on top of daserver.com in DA

How do I set this up correctly so demo.otherserver.com & demo.daserver.com are the same? Currently demo.otherserver.com loads the root of www.daserver.com

Thanks in advance dudes.
G

 

[nobaloney]

It's doing what you told it to do.

What you should do is create a new domain on the DA-powered server, demo.otherserver.com, instead of an alias.

This has nothing to do with DNS. DNS only points to an IP#; it doesn't care or know about anything else.

In your case it's telling the world to look on the DirectAdmin powered server for demo.otherserver.com.

What it does when it gets there depends on what you set. And what you set, was an alias, aliasing demo.otherserver.com to daserver.com.

So that's what you got.

Jeff