DNS record rant

[Adam]

I have recently set up a webmail account for me and my family. The URL for checking the mail as specified by the company is http://millerchip.mail.everyone.net , however this is difficult for people to remember so I created a CNAME record in my DNS record for http://mail.millerchip.net to forward to the same address.

The original URL works fine, but the redirected one causes an error message and I cannot work out why. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Adam

millerchip.net.  IN  NS ns1.granitecanyon.com.
millerchip.net.  IN  NS ns2.granitecanyon.com.

millerchip.net.  IN  RP adam_mchip.hotmail.com. .

millerchip.net.  IN  MX 0 sitemail.everyone.net.  ; EXTREF

millerchip.net.             IN  A  66.111.199.125
localhost.millerchip.net.   IN  A  127.0.0.1

www     IN  CNAME   millerchip.net.
mail    IN  CNAME   millerchip.mail.everyone.net. ; EXTREF

[JoeLeBlanc]

Hmm, this seams to be the problem with the email script at http://millerchip.mail.everyone.net ( look at http://millerchip.mail.everyone.net/...oSuchHost.html ), it seams it denys other host when its redirected as what your doing now, try adding mail.millerchip.net to the email script to accept redirects from mail.millerchip.net

Hope this helps

[Adam]

I thought it would be something along those lines. Unfortunately I do not have access to the e-mail script to change it. I guess I'll just have to live with the long URL

-- Adam

[JoeLeBlanc]

Hmm, this is what you can do maybe, you can create mail.millerchip.net subdomain on FQ ( $25 setup ) in a folder called mail and add a index.cgi to the folder and use perl to redirect it to millerchip.mail.everyone.net like follow:

 #!/usr/bin/perl

 print "Location: http://millerchip.mail.everyone.net/\n\n";

-- You can also use http://mail.millerchip.net/mail if you don't want to pay the $25 setup fee