Redirection Questions

[Cynge]

Heya....I'm back with a few more questions.

First...I signed up for the 25/year deal and so far I'm completely impressed with HostPC. The ease of signing up, the ease of the interface, the support that is here on these forums completely blows away my old host. And the 25/year deal can't be beat.

Ok...on to the question at hand.

The website I'm working on is for a guild webpage, so with setting up a complete package like this comes the website itself, the forums, voice comm, etc. I've got the forums all setup that was easy....

But I'm wondering is there any way that I can set it up so that users can enter in something like: voice.domain.com and be forwarded to the server I'm running that is actually hosting the voice software? The forwarding isn't being done in a browser (obviously) but the program itself....so not sure if there is any way to actually accomplish this given the tools that HostPC has.

I've used a dynamic dns account to set something up like: guildname.dynamicdns.com and I can enter that into the program (which btw is Ventrilo to be specific) and it works flawlessly. But I can't figure out how to accomplish (if I even can) with my actual domain.

I've setup a subdomain called "ventrilo" and setup a redirect to the dynamic dns hostname, but to no avail. Any ideas...or is it even possible?

[thevillageinn]

yes, you should be able to do this with the DNS menu in the DA control panel.

you would set up the dns entry and have it point to the ip or dynamic name where the software resides.

there is a website dedicated to getting people started with DA...it's address: Site-Helper.com (http://www.site-helper.com) where you might get some more information if what I supplied isn't accurate or detailed enough.

best of luck and welcome to the HostPC 'family'

[eugene]

Cynge-
Go to the "DNS Menu" in the main DA control panel.
Add a record of type "A".
voice.yourdomain.com ==> IP address of the voice server
For example:
voice.yourdomain.com A 123.456.789.01
-Eugene

[Cynge]

Hmm....I still can't seem to get this to work.

Here's what I've tried so far:

1) Add a DNS entry with the following details:
ventrilo.mydoman.com A mydomain.dyndns.org

In Ventrilo enter: ventrilo.mydomain.com as the Hostname

Result: Failed

2) Create a Subdomain first:
Create a "ventrilo" subodmain.
Delete the "ventrilo" dns entry and replace it with:
ventrilo A mydomain.dyndns.org

In Ventrilo enter: ventrilo.mydomain.com as the hostname

Result: Failed

3) Try both of the above, with the "." either on the end of the web address or not on it (in every combination).

Result: Failed

The only thing I can seem to get to work is directly entering in "mydomain.dyndns.org" in the Ventrilo Hostname section. Otherwise I get an error....


ORIGINAL: Ventrilo App

Unable to resolve the specified DNS/Hostname


Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong? To be a bit more specific....my details are:

MyDomain: azuretigers.net
DynDNS Pointer: azuretigers.game-host.org

So Ideally I would like to be able to have a user put in the hostname section of Ventrilo the following:

ventrilo.azuretigers.net

and that forward them so they can connect to:
azuretigers.game-host.org

Which is of course pointed at the IP which has Ventrilo running...I have to use the DynDNS server because it's on a cable connection and the IP may change.

Of course I could always just use the azuretigers.game-host.org hostname directly....just that being able to use something like ventrilo.azuretigers.net is so much more consistent and adds a nice level of "useability" to the overall site.

Also...thanks for the help...and the thought that I might be able to get this to work is awesome. :)

Edit: Edited for spelling mistakes :)

[thevillageinn]

Originally posted by Cynge@Feb 15 2004, 06:25 PM
The only thing I can seem to get to work is directly entering in "mydomain.dyndns.org" in the Ventrilo Hostname section. Otherwise I get an error....
I think this is how you have to set it up.

otherwise it appears that you are referring to an unknown ip, which is referring to itself. (circular logic doesn't work with DNS...)

[Guest_Cynge]

So I can't have the ventrilo subdomain refer to a differen't host which would then refer to my IP? Basically I'm substuting "MyIP" for "MyDynClient" sort of thing....

ventril refers to dyndns....dyndns refers to my ip

I've got a client that updates my IP address to the DynDns servers....

So it's not really circular....it's more like the referense I use in the DNS setup is a "3rd party" that refers to my actual IP....

[eugene]

I see two other ways to do this:
1. Redirect (HTML or .htaccess or DA) all requests to your sub-domain point to the dynamic address.
2. Have an updater page that gets the cable address and updates the DA DNS table--this could be a "simple" (as in small) php script that automatically checks your IP and updates the DirectAdmin table.
-Eugene

[thevillageinn]

Originally posted by Guest_Cynge@Feb 15 2004, 09:19 PM
So I can't have the ventrilo subdomain refer to a differen't host which would then refer to my IP? Basically I'm substuting "MyIP" for "MyDynClient" sort of thing....

ventril refers to dyndns....dyndns refers to my ip

I've got a client that updates my IP address to the DynDns servers....

So it's not really circular....it's more like the referense I use in the DNS setup is a "3rd party" that refers to my actual IP....
I must have mis-stated. What I quoted you saying, is how I think you have to set it up, which is what I read from your most recent post.

I think you have it, I think I confused you.

Also, Eugene's method of the php updater is interesting. His #1 is what I was trying to say you needed to do.

I'm going to step out of this one before I confuse anyone more.

[Nick]

Let me toss this in to all the confusion :unsure:

yourdomain.com. A 192.168.0.1

NOTICE the "." period at the end of .com

[eugene]

Originally posted by Nick@Feb 16 2004, 10:32 PM
Let me toss this in to all the confusion :unsure:

yourdomain.com. A 192.168.0.1

NOTICE the "." period at the end of .com
Yeah. You can either keep the dot or not.

[Cynge]

I've tried it both with and without the period. :(

Right now the way I have it configured is:

Created a Subdomain of "ventrilo", thus ventrilo.azuretigers.net is the full hostname.

Changed all DNS entires for ventrilo (which was "ventrilo" and "www.ventrilo") to resolve to: "azuretigers.game-host.org." <--- Note the period ;)

No luck.

I've also tried going about it by not creating the the subdomain, and simply creating a DNS entry for "ventrilo.azuretigers.net." and having that resolve to "azuretigers.game-host.org."

No luck.

Euguene...you mentioend having a PHP page that would get my dynamic IP and update the DirectAdmin DNS table.....how do I do that? That might very well work.