Internally Redirected Domains

[skyliner]

Hi there,

Must be a basic question, but I can't quite get it myself.

What does Internally Redirected Domain (mentioned in FQ pricelists) mean:

If I have an yyy.com account with FQ, and obtain an IRD zzz.com which "points" to yyy.com/zzz, will users of zzz.com see "yyy.com/zzz/..." stuff in the browser url line once they come to the zzz.com site, or does IRD look exactly like a "normal" domain for the end user, and the differences are just technical details such as absence of cgi-bin etc.?

(I know some people using sitename.cjb.net style redirectors, where the users are simply transfered to some ugly url once they access the [relatively] nice sitename.cjb.net. For instance, try http://exchanges.cjb.net. That is the thing I _do not_ need ).

Thanks in advance,
Skyliner

[This message has been edited by skyliner (edited 04-29-99)]

[Deb]

hehe no ... what you show above is more like what we would consider a standard Redirection....

IR (Internal Redirection) == zzz.com shows the same site as aaa.com but the URL does not change.  So unless you were to hardcode the links on the site ppl going to zzz.com see only zzz.com and people who go to aaa.com only see aaa.com neither really knowing the other exists.

IRM (Internal Redirection & Mapping) == zzz.com shows zzz.com but aaa.com shows zzz.com/aaa/ .. the /aaa/ directory works as the root directory for aaa.com -- as such the visitors can view aaa.com without ever knowing zzz.com exists...
   If requested -- you can also have the zzz.com's email addy's mapped under aaa.com too ..meaning if you have Owner@zzz.com and someone emails owner@aaa.com it will work (see edit in the threads below)

Sub-Domains == aaa.zzz.com actually uses the zzz.com/aaa/ directory as it's root.  So again, the visitor only needs to see aaa.zzz.com w/o being redirected to zzz.com/aaa/

Difficult to explain -- but all are pretty kewl feature

Deb




[This message has been edited by Deb (edited 07-05-99)]

[skyliner]

Deb,

Thanks, you did a brilliant job in explaining - I think I got it right. Now I'm gonna start collecting domains

The last thing: does the $25 IR/IRM setup fee cover e-mail mapping setup as well, or do we need to pay extra?

And one on a different topic: I'll probably need to build a site with a national top level domain (.lt) in future. I will handle registration with national domain registration center myself, but I guess I will need to provide them with some DNS names or similar stuff. What's the usual practice of handling region specific domain registrations at FQ?

Thanks again,
Skyliner

[Paul]

Now I'm gonna start collecting domains

Hehe..

[Deb]

Paul -- BeHave!

Skyliner... no it doesn't cost extra... it just has to be requested

You will find the information for our name servers and quite a few links for the International registeries by visiting http://www.FutureQuest.net/OtherDomain.php

Deb

[dean]

Terra explained this to me once, but I forgot the answer

I have internally redirected domains, and have an e-mail question  so, lets say:

dean.net is the primary (or first domain set up)
dean.com was added as a redirected domain.

Is it possible to use an e-mail alias for dean.com ? By this I mean can I send confused@dean.com  confused@hotmail.com ?  (or can I only do this with the .net domain ?)

[Deb]

If you set up so&so@primary.com to be an alias and have it all forwarded to so&so@hotmail.com then so&so@redirect.com is also going to forward over to the hotmail account.

As long as you have the email set to be redirected as well.. then whatever you setup on the primary is going to be mimicked by the redirected domain.

Deb

[dean]

Thank you, works great, I was stumped

[Stephen]

Um. How does this work again?

My primary FQ account is randommouse.com and I have an e-mail alias of stephen@randommouse.com which forwards to my GTE mail account. I have an internally re-directed domain ninthday.com. If I understand you Deb, messages sent to stephen@ninthday.com should also end up forwarded to my GTE account.

Instead I get the following returned mail error:

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at taz.futurequest.net. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<stephen@ninthday.com>:
Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host, it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local. (#5.4.6)


Did I misunderstand something, or was I supposed to contact mail support to have my &quot;control/locals&quot; file modified?

Thanks,
Stephen

[Deb]

--edit--
This is now setup automatically on any new redirections... you no longer need to request the ability for new accounts
--/edit--

If requested -- you can also have the zzz.com's email addy's mapped under aaa.com too ..meaning if you have Owner@zzz.com and someone emails owner@aaa.com it will work

Toss an email to support

Deb
[This message has been edited by Deb (edited 07-05-99)]