A question about DNS

[analog chainsaw]

Hi, I'm not sure if this is exactly the right place to post it, but it was the closest match to any other category. Feel free to move if needed.

Anyway, here is my question:

I have a website http://www.patrickmaloney.net. I want to be able to setup my DNS server so when you type in "patrickmaloney.net", without the whole "http://www" or "www", it will route you to my site. The DNS server is NT4, just for claritys sake. I don't think this is a very difficult task to accomplish, but I'm not extremely versed in DNS stuff and I wante to know if anyone here knew the answer before I started digging through DNS guides.

[Sephiroth]

how do you have the domain name entry listed in the server?

if you have it listed as www.patrickmaloney.net , it'll only work with www.patrickmaloney.net and not patrickmaloney.net

if you have it as just patrickmaloney.net and it's still not working, it's probably a web server config issue

to fix it if it's a web server config issue, if it's IIS, change the host header from www.patrickmaloney.net to patrickmaloney.net, and if it's apache, try adding another virtual host like so:

NameVirtualHost patrickmaloney.net
<VirtualHost patrickmaloney.net>
directives here in httpd.conf
</VirtualHost>

[analog chainsaw]

Thanks for the reply, Sephiroth. It's listed on the server as www.patrickmaloney.net, I'll try it without the alias. Thanks for the help! :P

[Sephiroth]

no prob , let me know if none of this fixes it, if not i'll see what i can dig up h34r:" class="inlineimg" />