On Mon, 26 May 2008 12:29:54 -0500, skim218 wrote:

> I can set subdomains individually with CNAMES(Aliases).

Why is this posted here instead of asking the ISP? This is unrelated to
Linux and you are not even using Linux.

On 26 May, 19:39, Dave Uhring wrote:
> On Mon, 26 May 2008 12:29:54 -0500, skim218 wrote:
> > I can set subdomains individually with CNAMES(Aliases).
>
> Why is this posted here instead of asking the ISP? *This is unrelated to
> Linux and you are not even using Linux.

Those are good questions. But he may be using Linux, and probably is
due to asking here. I'm a Linux consultant with over a decade's
professional experience, but I write pesonal email from the machine I
do games on, so I'm answering from a Gmail web client right now. You
can't assume the person doesn't use Linux because of their email
client. It's just not proof of that.

That said, the answer to Sean's client is 'GoDaddy will do this'. They
will sell you an entire domain, rather than a single hostname, and you
can make every subdomain of that domain point to the same IP by using
wildcards. And I'm sure GoDaddy will sell you services to run your own
DNS servers provide this information, configured the way you want. But
it's unusual for third party DNS providers to do that, and most of us
who register entire domains only register those individual hostnames
we wish, and let errors get a 'Non-existent domain' response.

Dave is quite right that Sean should take this up with his ISP: they
may have policies about DNS hosting that matter, and certainly the DNS
will own reverse DNS for the IP address, which should be configured to
match the desired primary hostname.

On Mon, 26 May 2008, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.setup, in article
<223b03f8-b79b-49e1-8dd8-ec6cae477dda@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

NOTE: Posting from groups.google.com (or some web-forums) dramatically
reduces the chance of your post being seen. Find a real news server.

>On 26 May, 19:39, Dave Uhring wrote:

>> On Mon, 26 May 2008 12:29:54 -0500, skim218 wrote:
>>> I can set subdomains individually with CNAMES(Aliases).
>>
>> Why is this posted here instead of asking the ISP? This is unrelated to
>> Linux and you are not even using Linux.
>
>Those are good questions. But he may be using Linux, and probably is
>due to asking here.

Q: Wildcard subdomains with GoDaddy? Sung Hyun Kim
Sat, 24 May 2008 15:37:45 -0500
alt.os.linux.ubuntu

Q: Wildcard subdomains with GoDaddy? skim218
Sun, 25 May 2008 06:48:36 -0500
alt.comp.linux

Q: Wildcard subdomains with GoDaddy? skim218
Mon, 26 May 2008 12:29:54 -0500
comp.os.linux.setup

and got specific answers in the first group about 3 hours after posting.
These three posts were identical, even to the same posting IP, and other
than the date/time differed only in the posting name. No idea where
else he may have posted.

Old guy