Name Server?

Racetog · October 3, 2006

Here's the deal... I used CMIE or whatever it's called to direct my site to smugmug. If you type, www.nameofsite you can reach my site but if you type http://nameofsite you cannot. I looked at Go Daddy where I bought the name and they have the nameserver directed back to them. What's the smugmug DNS I need to put it there and by doing so will it effect the www? I left out my domain name 'here' because the search engines pick it up and show a link to my posts here.

Thanks,
Mike

devbobo · October 4, 2006

Mike,

To do this, you need to setup an A record pointing to ip address 63.81.134.23

Cheers,

David

Mac Write · October 4, 2006

devbobo wrote:

Mike,

To do this, you need to setup an A record pointing to ip address 63.81.134.23

Cheers,

David

This is incorrect as the Smugmug IP can and will change. You need to setup a CNAME record and point it to www.smugmug.com. Then in your Smugmug control panel. Under account setting at the bottom it will tell you what domain you have pointed to smugmug. If nothing is entered, click change and enter the domain you wish to point to Smugmug. If you setup domain.com to point to Smugmug using CNAME www.domain.com should be also pointed automatically depending on the DNS control panel setup.

Hope this helps.

Andy · October 4, 2006

Mac Write wrote:

This is incorrect as the Smugmug IP can and will change. You need to setup a CNAME record and point it to www.smugmug.com. Then in your Smugmug control panel. Under account setting at the bottom it will tell you what domain you have pointed to smugmug. If nothing is entered, click change and enter the domain you wish to point to Smugmug. If you setup domain.com to point to Smugmug using CNAME www.domain.com should be also pointed automatically depending on the DNS control panel setup.

Hope this helps.

Actually not incorrect - the O.P. has a CNAME setup for www - and with most registrars, you can setup an additionanal A-Record for the domain.com url.

Godaddy supports this quite well

Cameron · October 4, 2006

Andy wrote:

Actually not incorrect - the O.P. has a CNAME setup for www - and with most registrars, you can setup an additionanal A-Record for the domain.com url.

Godaddy supports this quite well

Indeed - in fact, I just did this with Godaddy to get the domain.com (w/o www) working.

Racetog · October 4, 2006

Ok, so at Go Daddy add http://mydomainname.com in "A" and "B" nameserver?

Thanks guys,
Mike

Andy wrote:

Actually not incorrect - the O.P. has a CNAME setup for www - and with most registrars, you can setup an additionanal A-Record for the domain.com url.

Godaddy supports this quite well

Cameron · October 5, 2006

Racetog wrote:

Ok, so at Go Daddy add http://mydomainname.com in "A" and "B" nameserver?

Thanks guys,
Mike

Almost..

Actually, you'll want to go to GoDaddy, click on Manage Domains, then Total DNS Control. In the CNAME section, make WWW point to WWW.SMUGMUG.COM. Then, you can add a new A Record and have @ point to the same thing (or the smugmug IP address).
See here:
http://www.smugmug.com/help/godaddy.mg

devbobo · October 5, 2006

Mac Write wrote:

This is incorrect as the Smugmug IP can and will change. You need to setup a CNAME record and point it to www.smugmug.com. Then in your Smugmug control panel. Under account setting at the bottom it will tell you what domain you have pointed to smugmug. If nothing is entered, click change and enter the domain you wish to point to Smugmug. If you setup domain.com to point to Smugmug using CNAME www.domain.com should be also pointed automatically depending on the DNS control panel setup.

Hope this helps.

If you happen to read the original post, you will see that the user actually has the cname working correctly, ie. www.domain.com, but wants access to domain.com working.

The method that i stated is the correct method to achieve what he wants.

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