[Discuss] DNS redirect to custom content page

[Paul Nienaber]

A bunch of homeless people were doing this in Stanley Park. You could
ask them :) <BFG>

~p

R. McFarlane wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Okay, I know the subject line might be a little vague, so here it goes
> with more detail (I hope that makes sense).
>
> When a domain name request comes into my server, and that domain name
> is not setup (eg : it's a newly created domain name) with it's own web
> space yet, I would like to "redirect" to a page on the web server that
> loads a "newly registered" type web page but the content of the web
> page will have ad words like ads that need to be triggered on the
> domain name (eg : instantcreditnow.com would load credit ads).
> From what I know of bind, this is not possible (please correct me if I
> am wrong). As such, I think I need to use PHP (or something similar)
> to do what I want by checking the referrer information. This custom
> scripted page would have to be the index/default page of course for
> where bind redirects the requests to (eg : DNS query --> bind --> web
> server --> php).
>
> Does anyone have any insights?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
> http://www.mcfarlanecomputing.net/
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