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"JOey" <JOey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I am sorry if I confused with my question, to be more specific I am going
to
> replace the old webserver with a new one with different computer name
because
> we change our company name.
Don't worry about it -- except you won't get useful
answers that way.
> I don't want to go to each client pc and change
> default homepage to the new one.
It's doable through a Group Policy but I don't know
if there is an IE setting to do it directly or if you
must change something in the Registry directly
(or add an Administrative template.)
> How can I reconfigure our DNS server when
> they hit the old homepage to automatically point to the new one?
This is not really appropriate for DNS to do, but
the method I gave you before will work -- change
your DNS to point the old name to the new address.
(Works only if the web server does not RELY on
host headers or if you can add the old and new names
as acceptable.)
Do you still own the original name? If not, redirecting
the old name to the new server may not be appropriate.
If you do, why not just put up a referrel page that sends
people from one to the other?
> Example is
> default homepage is
http://oldserver.html I want this automatically to
> repoint to
http://newserver.html
>
DNS does NOT do the above.
Notice those are NOT DNS names but rather file
URLs.
DNS knows nothing about page names, only DNS
names.
File URLs must be redirected at the receiving Web
servers through HTML or other code.
--
Herb Martin
> Please Advice, Thank you
>
> "Herb Martin" wrote:
>
> > "JOey" <JOey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news
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> >
> > [Probably best to put something about your problem in the subject,
> > if it is really a newbie question everyone will know <grin> ]
> >
> > > We have intranet and the computer running as a webserver is down, how
do
> > you
> > > configure the local DNS server to point it to another computer?
> >
> > Change the DNS A (aka: Host) record for the web server
> > to point to the replacement IP address of the working
> > or replacement address.
> >
> > You could add a new record but that won't really work
> > correct with both (working and broken) Address/Host
> > records since SOME people would still be sent to the
> > broken server.
> >
> > When it is fixed, just change it back.
> >
> > You may not realize that CACHING (and the TTL -- Time
> > To Live) may play a role in how fast the change takes effect.
> >
> > DNS servers and newer clients (e.g., Win2K+) cache
> > records they have resolved until the TTL expires or until
> > you manually clear the caches.
> >
> > Perhaps you really were not asking how to change the DNS
> > server to point to another computer in place of your web
> > server though?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Herb Martin
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Thank you in advance.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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