Hello everyone. I was wondering if someone can help me with this. I need to do a DNS masking for a subdomain (i.e. subdomain.domain.com to anothersub.otherdomain.com). They told me that I have to CNAME a domain or sub-domain first. But I have no idea what this means. Can some1 help me explain this. also is this done by the registrar, or can i do it on my server (i have a dedicated server - so i have access to the nameserver(s)). thanks all.
This is simply a record that points to another record. It is neither your web server, nor your registrar that will deal with this and you must have it inserted on the NS server for your domain. Where to insert it is a matter of who is hosting your DNS. It could be your registrar or your web server. Run a whois for your domain to find the correct name servers and have the record inserted there. The format of the record will be something like this: subdomain IN CNAME anothersub.otherdomain.com. Code (markup):
thanks for the response. i checked and the registrant is tucows, but the name servers are my own. ie. ns1.mydomain.com. so i am in the whm under dns functions, but don't know where to go from there. i have already created the subdomain from the cpanel.