http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/alternatehost Questions tagged with 'alternatehost' at Ask MetaFilter. Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:07:45 -0800 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:07:45 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/76455/How%2Ddo%2Dyou%2Dmake%2Da%2Dsubdomain%2Dforward%2Dto%2Da%2Ddifferent%2Dhost How do you assign a subdomain to a different host? So, here's an odd situation.<br> <br> My brother runs a small charity that has a website at www.mybrotherschairty.org. The site is being hosted for free by a friend of his, but we don't have much contact with them, and I'm reluctant to ask them for favours. The domain name is registered with Godaddy, and while I have access to domain management there, I don't have any access to the hosting provider.<br> <br> I have been asked to set up a Movable Type blog for the site, but I don't have permissions to create a new database on our hosting provider, and I don't want to jam a bunch of tables into the ones we have. Therefore, I have agreed to host the blog at my personal server at www.myserver.net/blog. I have complete control of everything related to my server, including DNS.<br> <br> Okay, so what I want to do is to have the subdomain blog.mybrotherschairty.org go to myserver.net/blog. But I want to use masking so that the url doesn't change for visitors who will have no idea what myserver.net is. Yesterday, I went to Godaddy and added a subdomain though the interface there. However it's been over 28 hours and nslookup on blog.mybrotherschairty.com still says "no answer", so I think I need to do something else.<br> <br> This should be pretty easy to do, I think, but I have no idea how DNS works, or what a CNAME record is, or how to bake a delicious pie with said record. Please talk to me like I'm an idiot. What, exactly, should I do to make this work? tag:ask.metafilter.com,2007:site.76455 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:07:45 -0800 alternatehost DNS forward resolved subdomain tracert