Re: How to setup DNS alias

Hey Steve,

thank you for your reply.
I see what I missed there. Thank you for clarifying. I'm just a part 
time sysadmin... ;)

Regards

Joschka

Am 29.01.2014 21:02, schrieb Steve Yates:
> Joschka Blohm wrote on Wed, Jan 29 2014 at 1:54 pm:
>
>> I'm confused with the DNS settings in m0n0wall.
>>
>> I want my clients in my internal network to access a webpage by just
>> entering "test" in their address bar in the browser. But m0n0wall should
>> route this query to 192.168.1.2/test. How do I do this?
>
> 	DNS converts a hostname to an IP address, so you can't do what you're asking using just DNS.  You would need to set up a web site for the hostname "test" on 192.168.1.2 and have that redirect to http://192.168.1.2/test.
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