I am not sure if this is a DNS or IIS question or even possible. We are
running 4 sites on our webserver, IIS6. Each site uses a different port. I
have an ALIAS set up in DNS so when you go to URL http://alias.local the
home page of the defult site appears (port 80). Is there anyway of creating
a 2nd alias and having it take me directly to one of my other sites which is
on port 8090?

Thanks - Sam

Hi,

This is very doable.

However DNS only resolves host names to IP addresses. It doesn't, natively,
do anything WRT to ports.

So, what you should do is:
a) add a CNAME record to your DNS that points alias2.local -> IP address of
server
b) on your server, edit the configuration of website2, so that it listens on
IP address + port 80 + host-header=alias2.local

then you can type in http://alias2.local in your browser and access the site
on port 80

Cheers
Ken

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>I am not sure if this is a DNS or IIS question or even possible. We are
>running 4 sites on our webserver, IIS6. Each site uses a different port.
>I have an ALIAS set up in DNS so when you go to URL http://alias.local the
>home page of the defult site appears (port 80). Is there anyway of
>creating a 2nd alias and having it take me directly to one of my other
>sites which is on port 8090?
>
> Thanks - Sam
>