[Xitami] HELP!

[Brian {Hamilton Kelly}]

In message <20040510133554.69813.qmail@web41503.mail.yahoo.com>
   Chris Jones writes:
> How do I get the address of my web page to display
> 
> http://www.chrisjonessr.com
> 
> instead of
> 
> http://24.88.50.145

What are you inputting to see the latter?  According to DNS,
www.chrisjonessr.com is [216.168.224.70].

[fx: clatter,clatter]

Hmm; it seems that you're using some sort of redirection --- when I typed
the "alphabetic" URL into Netscape, I got to http://24.88.50.145/ too.
Are you using some sort of dynamic DNS redirection service?

Further investigation (with a CLI telnet client, with logging, connecting
to port 80 of www.chrisjonessr.com), with the following commands:

    GET / HTTP/1.1
    Host: www.chrisjonessr.com
    
elicits the response:

    HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
    Server: Netscape-Enterprise/6.0
    Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 17:13:53 GMT
    Content-length: 0
    Content-type: text/html
    Location: http://24.88.50.145
    Connection: close
    
I suggest you contact whomsoever is managing the server at
[216.168.224.70] and ask them if there is a more opaque option available
for the redirection.   (I note that [24.88.50.145] would seem to be a
RoadRunner cable connection; can you get fixed IP service for this?)

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