IP Networking

I'm no DNS expert, and I'm hoping someone would be able to help me with this issue I'm facing.

I have a set of links in the following schema:

Code:

http://somedomain.com/xyz
http://somedomain.com/abc
http://somedomain.com/123

and they are pointing to content at:

Code:

http://www.somedomain.com/xyz
http://www.somedomain.com/abc
http://www.somedomain.com/123

but the top link fails to reach the correct content.

As it stands the DNS configuration looks like:

Code:

@ 3600 NS ns1.namesforyou.com.
@ 3600 NS ns2.namesforyou.com.
www 3600 CNAME foo.bar.someotherhost.com.
* 3600 CNAME foo.bar.someotherhost.com.

Any way I'd be able to have these links behave properly without a CNAME root record?

---------- Post updated 11-02-10 at 12:08 PM ---------- Previous update was 11-01-10 at 09:49 PM ----------

Was able to get this solved by sticking an intermediary server that redirects http://somedomain.com/anything to http://www.somedomain.com/anything

As far as I can determine the problem has nothing to do with DNS.
It has te do with the configuration of the Webserver that servers the website.
It probably only recognises the www somedomain com domain. An Alias should be added to the webserver configuration that points to the same site.
The exact configuration on the Webserver software is depending on the brand of software, but since this is a Unix forum I guess that the webserver used is Apache. In that case we talk about virtual hosts. If you google for apache domain aliases you'll end up on the Apache page that describes virtual hosts.

Good luck with that!

Martin Vermeer