On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 21:20:41 -0400 (EDT), "Keith Mastin" <kmastin-PzQIwG9Jn9VAFePFGvp55w at public.gmane.org> said:

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Following instructions in the Zoneedit FAQ, I created an A record ww2.malcolmson.ca pointing to the external IP address of my router. Next I made a CNAME called zope.malcolmson.ca and pointed that to ww2.malcolmson.ca:9673. The problem is, while ww2.malcolmson.ca:9673 works, zope.malcolmson.ca returns a blank page.

Zoneedit's DNS record for zope.malcolmson.ca is:

Host Type Value zope.malcolmson.ca CNAME wf.zoneedit.com ^---- wf.domain.tld? I thought you wanted ww2.domain.tld? Could this have something to do with the problem?

As Fraser mentioned, dns is not the arena to assign ports. Get the dns straight (check with the host command or dig), and then assign the ports using redirect as he mentioned.

Here's your results of dig zope.malcolmson.ca right now: ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;zope.malcolmson.ca. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION: zope.malcolmson.ca. 7200 IN CNAME wf.zoneedit.com. wf.zoneedit.com. 3600 IN A 207.44.244.117 wf.zoneedit.com. 3600 IN A 69.10.136.210

My guess is that both machines that wf.zoneedit.com point to are dns machines, and not your home EXT_IP.

Thanks very much for these responses - I've got this solved now though the answer is kind of anticlimactic - turns out it was a bug with Zoneedit's WebForward feature. I only found out after emailing their tech support; I didn't even realize they had tech support (being a mostly free service, after all) until I'd looked through their FAQ and documentation about 25 times for why my setup, copied exactly from their example, wasn't working. As for port numbers in DNS records, the WebForward feature uses HTTP redirection. Here's an explanation: http://mail.gnhlug.org/pipermail/gnhlug-discuss/2002-December/001963.html Still, I will take Fraser's suggestion and set up Apache with Virtual Hosts 'cause it sounds neat and there are HOWTO's for using Zope behind Apache. BTW: my Linksys BEFSR41 port forwarding feature doesn't do proxy-like forwarding to specific ports; it just forwards connections to any of a range of ports to a host on the interal network. ------------------- Andrew Malcolmson -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml