Redirecting w/ CNAME

Hi all,

I remember once setting up a CNAME record in Windows 2000 DNS to forward "test.mydomain.com" to "www.microsoft.com" and it worked beautifully. In other words, pointing a browser to "http://test.mydomain.com," produced Microsoft's website.

Now, I am trying to repeat this behavior (but without the benefit of the instructions that prompted my former success) and cannot get it to work. IE returns a 400 error. The CNAME record is simply:

Parent domain: mydomain.com
Alias name: test
Target host: www.microsoft.com

What am I forgetting?

Any help is GREATLY appreciated.

Dave

 

 

 

 

Top