Hi all...

So I am not sure how to do this... but what I am looking to do is....

I have a domain - fabrikam.com

I would like to be able to type into my web browser "fabrikam.com" and have
it go to my web site... however, without using a specific host recors, I am
not sure how to make that happen?

Thanks,

D

"David" <David@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all...
>
> So I am not sure how to do this... but what I am looking to do is....
>
> I have a domain - fabrikam.com
>
> I would like to be able to type into my web browser "fabrikam.com" and
> have
> it go to my web site... however, without using a specific host recors, I
> am
> not sure how to make that happen?

You add a BLANK record (aka: Same As Parent) with no specific host name
for that A record giving the IP address.

This is easy to do but will NOT work if you are dealing with an DNS Zone
which
supports an AD Domain (by default) since in that case every AD Domain
Controller
is already registering this "blank" or "domain base name" record.

There are ways to change this behavior but they are not usually a good
choice.

For my public Domain Names (on the Internet) and web servers we always do
this,
but never for those that are supporting AD internally.

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