point a subdomain to a different host

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I have a site hosted on xtreemhost.com - example.com

Name servers
ns1.xtreemhost.com
ns2.xtreemhost.com

Can I assign my blog, hosted on blogspot, the subdomain - xyz.example.com
So that any permalink to my blog shows http://xyz.example.com/....

I am using the DNS service provided by everyDNS. I have made some changes to the records of my domain



Will these work?

In my account with the domain registrar I have entered the name servers of everydns
ns1.everydns.net
ns2.everydns.net
ns3.everydns.net
ns4.everydns.net

If it is of any help
xtreemhost.com also allows us to write to .htaccess. I have uploaded my own file to redirect example.com to ww*.example.com

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any aspiring webmasters here??

18 hours since i posted this and yet no reply

[valtea]

i thought just adding Cname should work. Try re checking in your blogspot settings for a custom url.

I remembered one point......... Did you wait for the DNS to crawl.

[Choto Cheeta]

any aspiring webmasters here??

I am no web master but few details from my END...

Yes you can point any subdomain to a different host.... Problem is you need to have a domain side DNS control allowing such or your primary HOST allowing that..

for example, DreamHost do allow you to host a subdomain out from their hosting to another one...

Why wont it work with EveryDNS.NET ??

On theory it should... how ever problem is when park a domain in a host they autometically asign an A record as

*.yourdomain.com >> A >> Hosting IP

This is to make sure any subdomain which you creat autometically point to the same hosting to avoide any delay on the functionality of the subdomain...

so I see it actually over writes any change on everyDNS.net !!! it doesnt work

What to do ??

Now to make this thing work, you need to remove that primary A record for wild card entry

*.yourdomain.com >> A >> Hosting IP

so does your host allow you DNS control on their hosting panel ??

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when i contacted their tech support [ticket], they asked me to change the name server in my domain registars account to - ns1.xtreemhost.com & ns2.xtreemhost.com

When i did that everything worked fine. I was getting a site @ example.com (hosted at xtreemhost) and also blog.example.com (hosted at blogspot)

They said that if I have to make changes to my domain records I will have to contact them and they will change it or me.

When I insisted on having more control over my domain records, they said that in that case I could continue using everydns name servers but I have to add an A-record to 209.51.196.242 in the entry

I had made those xchanges a couple of hours back. now I am sitting back and waiting for the DNS changes to propogate and hopefully things will work out again

my current records


Anyway thanks for replying
I was getting a feeling that people had boycotted me on this forum

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Things seems to be working fine now. I now have a site at example.com(xtreemhost) and also blog.example.com (blogspot)

The record entries (screenshot in my third post) seems to have done the trick

Another thing
All through my problem, the ticket-based tech suppport offered by byet.org [xtreemhost is a reseller] had been extremely prompt and patient (aftr 9.30 PM IST). I quite liked it

but dont go for their hosting

their IP is being blocked by PG2 because of another subdomain that they are hosting on the same IP

I will point it out to them in my next post in the ticket. Lets see what they do

[Choto Cheeta]

They said that if I have to make changes to my domain records I will have to contact them and they will change it or me.

Yes any Host will have hosting side DNS control

When I insisted on having more control over my domain records, they said that in that case I could continue using everydns name servers but I have to add an A-record to 209.51.196.242 in the entry

Now they have deleted the wild card subdomain IP i guess, so if you creat another subdomain, you have to add an A record every time at everyDNS.net

Anyway thanks for replying
I was getting a feeling that people had boycotted me on this forum

My friend, one cant know every thing, can one ??

P.S. Glad to know problem is solved