Help with DNS forwarding to f2s webspace

Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 8:58 am (20 years ago)

Hi there - I'm pretty new to all this so please don't assume I know anything when replying Confused

I have recently set up a website on the 50Mb webspace that came with my ADSL (512 - pure IP home user - wires only) package - 'www.danskinner.f2s.com(/index.shtml)'

Now that's all fine & dandy but I now want to redirect traffic to it from my existing domain name 'www.danskinner.co.uk'.

I own danskinner.co.uk by virtue of having control of it at 123reg.co.uk, where I can either set up conventional web forwarding or indeed tweak the DNS values.. and it's here that it all goes a bit hazy!

I would 'like' for people who type in 'www.danskinner.co.uk' to be served the website on my f2s webspace but while still maintaining 'www.danskinner.co.uk' in the address bar (something that wasn't possible with simple unframed web forwarding & i couldn't use framed because that caused it's own problems..)

I 'thought' it might just be a case of adding:
www - CNAME - danskinner.f2s.com.
in the 'Manage DNS' section for danskinner.co.uk, but I've tried that & still nothing..
I would have preffered to forward to an 'A' value but none of the obvious IP addresses seem to work:
- 195.137.57.134 - 'WAN IP address' as specified on f2s member’s area
- 194.106.33.35 - address that I get when I ping 'www.danskinner.f2s.com'
etc..

So to summarise I currently 'just' have a 'www CNAME' tag but nothing doing! (2+ days have elapsed to allow time for propagation)
NB. I'm not too bothered about MX email tags (although an understanding would be appreciated!) because I soley use hotmail..

Any help from you guys would be greatly appreciated - I emailed f2s tech support and this is their (not very helpful) reply in it's entirity!:

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Daniel

If you try adding a CNAME record for 'www.danskinner.co.uk' to point to 'www.danskinner.f2s.com' this should be ok.

Kind regards
Scott
f2s Technical Support
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NB. also, I have seen references to an DNS section on the f2s members area but do not seem to have that facility on my account details page..

I'm fairly sure that I'm simply missing out on something fundamental!
Cheers for any help/insight in advance!

Dan

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 8:43 am (20 years ago)

Dan,

You won't be able to do it that way since apache would have to be configured to listen for requests for www.danskinner.co.uk & f2s won't set it up for you unless you pay their silly domain hosting prices.

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I'll give them credit though because I'm nice, whereas before it was 20MB Email shared between all the account and 20MB Webspace it's now 20x20MB Email Accounts with 50MB Webspace, plus some nice new features coming soon, SMTP over SSL, Webmail (IMP 3.2.3) over SSL with Calender being the most recent ones.

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