Re: UKNM: NetNames Forwarding

[Jamie Unwin]

Without going round in circles :-


> using a form of include script whereby the initial server goes and gets the page from the real server then displays it to the user.


This would require Netnames server to (a) Go and fetch a page (b) Serve it to the user. Even if they used a Proxy to do this Netnames would in effect be serving the traffic for a large percentage of domains it has registered for clients. _This simply is not practical_


> Have a smart server that can translate the URLs

This would (a) Require extra server processing, slowing down requests and addign extra load on Netnames servers. (b) you would still have the www.blah.freehosting.co.uk/freespace URL in your browser


Neither of thse is really practical ??


Basically if you are thinking of hosting a large traffic site, then you want to use DNS, thats what it was designed for. Unfortunatly or fortunately depending on your point of view the cheapest form of web hosting happens to be of the Freeserve 5Mb free type, and for these peaople" cloaking" ie. using zero height frames probably works quite well, it also allows people to change where their domain points to via web forms (although I don't know if Netnames do this)


Just looked at both my domains registered with Netnames and they both use DNS forwarding ?


>         Reply to:   Re: UKNM: NetNames Forwarding

>Jamie Unwin wrote:

>> it's the only way you can redirect > www.acme.com to acmetrading567.dodgyhosting.co.uk/acemspares.

>

>I assume you mean without the user seeing the real URL. In which case there are two other methods (in theory, at least):

>

> 1) have a smart server that can translate the URLs (as mentioned by Azeem previously)

> 2) using a form of include script whereby the initial server goes and gets the page from the real server then displays it to the user.

>

>If your objective is simply to redirect you can use DNS, location directives or meta refresh as well as the above.

>

>> If your friend has a static IP for his site then Netnames should really be

>> relying on DNS to handle the forwarding

>

>And that's really the point.

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