subdomain redirection issue

arcmax

Hi guys,

hope you can help me out here.

I have two servers with two different ip address in two differnt physical location.

server A - 202.44.33.1 - domain.com
server B - 192.33.55.3 - abc.domain.com

what i would like to do is hat i would like to redirect people coming to abc.domain.com to ip address 192.33.55.3 instead of the conventional 202.44.33.1/abc/

can this be done ? If so how ? I know it can be done but i am not sure how or what the technical term for such a service would be ? and the actual steps involved in creating a redirection like this.

Any help or direction is appreciated

thanks

bradgrafelman

That would depend on who handles DNS for your domain.

Basically, you'll want to add an A record in your DNS entries to point to the other IP. Example record:

abc.domain.com. IN A 192.33.55.3

arcmax

I take it this can only be done using a dedicated server...or can it be done within your domain registrar 's settings ?

thanks

cahva

If you have your domain setup, it has working nameservers. So contact the company who administrates your nameservers and they will add that subdomain to your domain. If you have bought your domain from registrar/hostingfirm who also offers the nameservers, they probably offer some kind of administration/panel for those.