Domain Name Forward and CNAME difference?

I changed my Domain Name Forward for my Yahoo! domain to web.mac.com/toff and it now forwards. What does changing the CNAME in addition to that do?

You do one or the other, not both.
The difference is what appears in the browser address bar. CNAME gives you www.mysite.com/sitename/pagename.html. Domain forward gives you web.mac.com/username/sitename/pagename.html or, with masking, www.mysite.com (for every page).

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Just got a macbook pro last week. brand new to this/have no idea what i'm doing. want to get my own domain name. is it possible to buy a domain name ie
'Testing123.Com' and have it so that when i publish my blog on my .mac/iweb account, the domain name forwards/links to the .mac blog?
in other words, the .mac/iweb blog address is too long/convoluted...i want something catchier. so is it possible? please advise...would be eternally grateful. thanks so much,
Emily

Emily:
Yes, you can purchase a domain name and have it forwarded to your iWeb produced site. You'll need to buy the name first. GoDaddy.com seems to be a very popular site to purchase domain names.
Do you Twango?

Help:Domain name forwarding to .mac URL

Experts - newbie here - used iweb and built my site. Forwarded my domain name to the .mac URL and everytime I try to access the domain name I get a .mac screen that says my .mac iweb site does not exist. Seemed all rather simple with point and click so now what? Thanks

everytime I try to access the domain name I get a
.mac screen that says my .mac iweb site does not
exist.
Most likely you made an error in the url. If you would provide the two urls someone could probably help you fix it, otherwise it's pretty impossible.

ISE Domain Name, Certificates and Guest Portal

Hi everyone,
We have an ISE deployment using our internal domain for its FQDN (For example: ise01.private.local). We now want to use it for authenticating guest access and have noticed the redirection URL by default uses the FQDN of the ISE server.
This works fine for our corporate machines as we have our own internal CA and generated certificates. As we do not want certificate errors occurring for our guests, we need to use a public FQDN.
Are we best off changing the domain-name used by the ISE servers or is there a way to edit the redirection URL to use a custom domain?
I have heard suggestions that changing the domain-name is unsupported, but I can't find any other way.
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Mark,
Do you already have a public FQDN pointing to your ISE? If so, let's assume that you are authenticating guests using CWA. First creat a new Authorization Profile, under Common Tasks, select Web Redirection (CWA, DRW, MDM, NSP, CPP), Choose the Authentication Method (in this case, CWA) and define the ACL to be used. Just below that, select Static IP/Host Name and enter the public FQDN that points to your ISE.
From here you can create an Authorization Policy to reference the profile you just created.
Please Rate Helpful posts and mark this question as answered if, in fact, this does answer your question. Otherwise, feel free to post follow-up questions.
Charles Moreton

Can someone plz tell me what a domain name is and were I find mine?

any1 no were I can find my domain name n what it's about please..? Ci&e

Chezlvzfez wrote:
who do u mean the man?
The man who tells you what you can post online, who tells you what e-mail address to use, who tells what e-mail system you can use, who locks you into a proprietary system and then cancels it when it becomes too much trouble, leaving you you change your entire online identify. If you have your own domain name, you don't have to worry about any of that.

Change domain name clients and server

Hello,
I want to change the domain name from eg ".vancouver.gov" to ".vancouver.local" on all of our devices in the network. Zcm has been installed with ".vancouver.gov" and the clients also are registered with ".vancouver.gov". When i change the domain name on the workstations and change the corresponding dns entries of the workstations to ".vancouver.gov" i cannot register workstations anymore and wol does not work anymore. Distributing applications to the workstation does work.
Anybody now how to accomplish this change.
We have about 400 workstations and 1 zcm 10.3.3 server.
Thanks.
Ren

I would recommend an SR.
Changing the DNS of Devices should not impact any of that, so long as
the clients can still properly resolve the servers and you are not
destroying the old DNS zone.
This may indicate that the CA/Server CERTs do not have the fullied
qualified DNS name of the server but perhaps just the short name.
Also, I would not recommend attempting to fix any certs right away, but
rather using the "Additional DNS Name" setting on your server, since
changing a Cert could cause lots for work on client PCs.
Later versions of ZCM make changing server certs a little easier but for
10.3.3, I would just use the server setting instead of a change.
But since I suspect you can create an SR as most government accounts
can, it may be simplest to go that route but keep my thoughts avoiding
any cert rebuilds in mind if there is any issue with the names in the
server cert.
On 6/4/2012 11:16 AM, rengelha wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I want to change the domain name from eg ".vancouver.gov" to
> ".vancouver.local" on all of our devices in the network. Zcm has been
> installed with ".vancouver.gov" and the clients also are registered with
> ".vancouver.gov". When i change the domain name on the workstations and
> change the corresponding dns entries of the workstations to
> ".vancouver.gov" i cannot register workstations anymore and wol does not
> work anymore. Distributing applications to the workstation does work.
>
> Anybody now how to accomplish this change.
>
> We have about 400 workstations and 1 zcm 10.3.3 server.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ren�
>
>
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OT - Uk Domain name registrar and hosting

Sorry for the OT -
Can anyone reccomend a quality Domain Name Registrar that
offers full
copntrol over the Domain and also offer a small amount of
free hosting?
I don't want the hosting to be a 'wizard' system whereby you
simply ad a
logo and a bit of text. i need FTP access to it to allow my
own simple
websites.
Hope someone can advise.....
Thanks in advance.
Andy

Hi Andy,
try www.123-reg.co.uk - all that and more!
Regards
Mark :)
Andy wrote:
> Sorry for the OT -
> Can anyone reccomend a quality Domain Name Registrar
that offers full
> copntrol over the Domain and also offer a small amount
of free hosting?
> I don't want the hosting to be a 'wizard' system whereby
you simply ad a
> logo and a bit of text. i need FTP access to it to allow
my own simple
> websites.
> Hope someone can advise.....
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Andy
>
>

Whitelist for domain names (send and receive)

We have this constant issue where our mail server gets loaded up with emails to and from domains that our in no way connected with ours.
Our external firewall prevents these from going out, but they still remain in the Mail Queue. Is there any way to make a white list so that our domain names need to be included in either the sender OR the receiver and then just delete any other SMTP attempts?
Thanks!
Bonus Question. Is there a program I can install on the server that can tell me what IP addresses are sending those emails?

You're potentially running an open relay, and (if that's the case) you'll want to address that.
The open relay can arise via misconfigured mail server, or via a web vulnerability in some web services thing (content management system, etc) you're running.
It's also possible that the server is correctly configured, and that there's an infected client box operating behind your mail server within your domain, or that's external but authorized to use your mail server.
And the unauthorized variation: being a breached password.
You'll want to secure the mail server first and foremost; filtering the outbound domain in the messages won't be particularly reliable, as these folks will just send from your domain and leave you to a: get your mail server blacklisted and b: deal with the backscatter.
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Muse can't validate my domain name, FTP and folder....? when I try to upload it to Host FTP

When I try to publish my additions in Muse, an error message tells me that it can't validate my domain, FTP and server folder. Has anyone had this problem?

For general advice see Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates.
The steps in the second box are a guide to removing everything related to iTunes and then rebuilding it, which is often a good starting point unless the symptoms indicate a more specific approach. Review the other boxes and the list of support documents further down page in case one of them applies.
Your library should be unaffected by these steps but there is backup and recovery advice elsewhere in the user tip.
tt2

Using own domain name , duplication of web address HELP !!

Hi all,
Although this is not a big problem it is quite annoying. I am currently building website within Iweb 09. I have managed to set up my own domain name with no problems at all. The only thing is I get a duplication of my website name on the browser here it is :
*http://www.topviewweddings.co.uk/topviewweddings/Home.html*
I would ideally like to just have *http://www.topviewweddings.co.uk*
Anyone have any ideas on how to do this ??
cheers
T

One way would be to use standard domain name forwarding (not CNAME) and enable masking. That would put http://www.topviewweddings.co.uk in the URL window of ALL your pages. The downside to that is visitors can only bookmark your first page which may or may not be a problem. My tutorial site, http://toadstutorials.info , is set up that way.
OT

Personal Domain name, CName & netbenefit - losing hope

True I'm new to this, and before you ask I have followed the routine in the mobileme instructions.
I've built a couple of Pages which I've 'published' through Iweb to my mobileme account, I had already brought my self a domain name from Netbenefit, and since registered this with mobileme.
so mobile me lists me as @www.parsleyswarren.org
Cname on Netbenefit is:
Host = web.me.com.
Goes to = web.me.com.
the settings send me to a generic Netbenefit page.
My partner has a website where she uses web forwarding instead of the Cname. It works, but when I use webforwarding I get a page from my service provider that says that web.me.com can not be found.
Any clues ? a solution would be nice (Apple have told me to start again - and again, Whilst Netbenifit have been very quiet). I'm sure it's simple but a week of this is not letting me see this with any clarity.

Okay, firstly, if you registered your domain name through Netbenefit, then Netbenefit is your domain name registrar. MobileMe has nothing to do with this and has not registered your domain name - you just have it set up in the personal domain name settings in your MobileMe account and that is all. MobileMe is just the host for your website.
So to set up the CNAME forwarding, your domain name itself which is your alias needs to be forwarded to web.me.com which is your host.
Under the DNS settings it should be something like www, CNAME, web.me.com and @, CNAME, web.me.com. The www is your sub domain which you are forwarding with @ representing your domain name itself, so you would have to set up a new CNAME for both.
Don't use web forwarding and CNAME at the same time, you need to use either one or the other.
If you want to use web forwarding, then you need to go to the web forwarding section of your domain name provider and forward your domain name either masked or unmasked to web.me.com/username/sitename. You need to use more here than just the web.me.com which is only used for CNAME forwarding.

Domain name is duplicated...making it longer and redundant than necessary

This happened when I updated my domain name a few extra times with hosting by .mac. What to do to get it with just one?
Thanks
http://www.brendaboylan.com/BrendaBoylan.com/Brenda_Boylan.html

That's because you named your site the same as your domain name. The usual URL for CNAME domain name forwarding is www.domainname.com/site_name/page_name.html.
Change your site name to something descriptive of your offerings you will get rid of the double domain name in the URL.
Another way to get rid of the double domain name is to publish your site to a folder on the hard drive and uploaed just the contents of the site folder to your server. You will have to delete the existing site folder from the server beforehand and then upload just the contents. That will give you
http://www.brendaboylan.com/Brenda_Boylan.html
for the first page. Then next page would be:
http://www.brendaboylan.com/Pastel_Paintings.html

Domain name and search engines

Hi
There have been a few helpful postings about the importance
of having text on your frontpage for crawlers etc to improve your
search ranking. My question: how important is the domain name for
search engines? Is it worth investing a dime or 2 on a good generic
domain? If you needed to have 2 words (e.g. www.top-lawyer.com) is
it better to have them combined (e.g. www.toplawyer.com).
PS This is just an example...I am not a lawyer!

"Airborne Bob" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> Gareth:
>
> In my case, I have created my website at Domain Name
> www.LBIBeachRentals.NET.
> The .COM version was not available at the time I
obtained it.
>
> But I just purchased the .COM version this past Friday
because it became
> available and it's the more commonly accepted URL (and
as a preventative
> measure against someone else getting my rental people).
>
> Network Solutions tells me it's no problem.... they'll
just direct (or
> "point")the .COM to my .NET website. Is this okay in
terms of search?
> Are you
> saying I will somewhat diminish ranking by doing this?
>
> TIA for any advice on what I'm doing.
I think that your both confusing "domain names" and
"domain/web space
hosting" here.
Typically you register with a hosting company and receive an
amount of disk
space. bandwith etc and a domain name, say
www.thru-the-net.com
You create your web site and upload it to the serve and
people can access
your web site at www.thru-the-net.com
Now you realise that many people outside the US are entering
www.through-the-net.com so you get your provider to register
www.through-the-net.com for you as well and they POINT this
address to
www.thru-the-net.com. That is to say when people enter
www.through-net.com
the actually end up at www.thru-the net.com i.e. the same
place.
This is o.k. you can have as many variations as you want -
www.thru-the-net.com
www.through-the-net.com
www.thruthenet.com
www.throughthenet.com
www.thru-the-net.net
www.through-the-net.net
etc. all pointing to the same www.thru-the-net.com server.
This is o.k. and
the search engines don't mind this.
BUT
If you have SEPARATE web space for each of these domain name
variants and
just copy your entire site into each of these spaces, now the
domains are
not being forwarded. They are entirely stand alone domains
that are all the
same.
Search engines DON'T like these and see them as an attempt at
improving
ranking and therefore penalise all of them.
Sorry for being so long winded, but hopefully this makes
sense.
Regards
Phill

I have a mobleme account and an existing iweb website. I would like to create a second website with a registered domain name. How do I do this?

I have a mobleme account and an existing iweb website. I would like to create a second website with a registered domain name. How do I do this?

All you need to do is create your second site in iWeb, move it to the top of lhe list of sites in the left hand pane and publish to your MobileMe account. You must make sure the second site has a different name from the first.
Then setup domain name forwarding to the second site following Apple's instructions here: iWeb: Using your own domain name. You will need to setup forwarding at your domain name provider also.
The key is that the second site (with the domain name) must the top top size in iWeb.
Note: with MobileMe scheduled to be discontinued on June 30, 2012, you might begin looking into obtaining another host. When you do you'll find that both sites will need to have a domain name.
When the time comes take a look at HostExcellence.com. I've had excellent results with it. They have a couple of packages that offer free domain names. And most important they have outstanding 24/7, ear-to-ear customer support.
OT

Domain Names and Oracle

Hi,
I am preparing to install Oracle 8i on my Windows NT machine,
and I stumped into something that I can find no answer for.
Oracle asks me to say what my domain name is (e.g. suse.com). It
uses this to manage the different Oracle instances, e.g.,
server1.suse.com and server2.suse.com. Well, the problem is that
our machines do not have our domain name. That is, the machine I
am using (as well as all our servers) does not have a DNS name
xxx.intelsystech.com. Their names are managed by our ISP, and
for all I know they change it once in a while. Our machines do
have unique IP numbers, though (e.g. 43.25.44.32). We have
managed to do just about everything else using these fixed IP
numbers (e.g. ftp, http, etc.). Also, names are not a problem
because all machines are in the Windows Active Directory domain,
and therefore have a "local" name (e.g. Monet) in the Windows
LAN.
What should I enter when Oracle asks for my domain name? And for
the machine name? Can I use the IP number? Or the IP pattern
(e.g. 43.25.44.)? How will I be able to refer to an Oracle
service (listener, database name) without a domain name?
Thanks,
Taha

Oracle asks me to say what my domain name is (e.g. suse.com). It
uses this to manage the different Oracle instances, e.g.,
server1.suse.com and server2.suse.com. These domain names are not the same as ip domain names. You need
the domain names only if you want to have different oracle db's
connected to each other, e.g. for replication.
If you are using this db alone, then just choose any name.
How will I be able to refer to an Oracle
service (listener, database name) without a domain name? You can use ip-addresses for listener and tnsnames, but it is
better to use dns-names.
Hop this helps.
Thomas

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