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I want to know if this is still possible.. How can i point my subdomain from one server (server A) to another (server b) if server b does not have a domain yet, only server hosting.

Basically what i'm doing right now is add A Record from server A DNS and point it to server B IP address. Can I add that same subdomain record on server B for then?

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The question is very confused, with a lot of strange vocabulary (what is "pointing a subdomain from a server"???). Is Chris Thorpe's rewriting correct? – bortzmeyer Feb 3 '10 at 9:46
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If I understand your question correctly, your infrastructure looks like this:

In this instance, you need to create an additional CNAME record subdomain.yourdomain.com and point it at ServerB-IP like the original A record.

Then on IIS on Server B, you need to configure it to serve a different site depending on the Host Header Name. See the following link for a full explaination:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/b77cf015-017f-489c-9b5b-65ca4a679392.mspx?mfr=true

Apologies in advance if I've guessed incorrectly, and you're not in a Windows/IIS environment.

There's another guide for this here:

http://content.websitegear.com/article/subdomain_setup.htm

If I've misread your question and your website is currently hosted entirely on Server A, but you want only a specific subdomain to redirect to server B, then you need to create a second A Record, and set it to subdomain.mydomain.com pointing at the IP for Server B. Then you install IIS on Server B and setup the subdomain web content.

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I apologize if i got you guys confused on this as i am not so familiar with these thingy. 3 servers : - SERVER A is a hosting server. - SERVER B is a DNS server - SERVER C is another hosting server (IIS Server) * SERVER A holds the main website pages (e.g. www.isolutions.com) * SERVER B contains DNS records that points to SERVER A - SERVER C does not have any domain name registered yet so it is just an IP address. I wanted to make a subdomain for isolutions.com we call it bankin.isolutions.com and this time have it point to SERVER C instead. SERVER C is a windows server. – jan Feb 4 '10 at 7:52
Gotcha jan ;) You need to create a CName record on SERVER B for 'bankin.isolutions.com' which points to SERVER C IP address. No domain registration is necessary for a subdomain, if you already own the parent domain name. – Chris Thorpe Feb 5 '10 at 6:58
thanks chris! im with asiaregistry.com as my dns provider now the problem is when i add a cname record it asks for host and a hostname it wont let me enter an IP address. and i can't put any hostname because they don't have a domain... or am i doin something else wrong? – jan Feb 6 '10 at 17:43
hostname should be 'bankin' or the fqdn bankin.isolutions.com – Chris Thorpe Feb 7 '10 at 1:06
i'm putting host: to be the IP address and the hostname to be bankin.isolutions.com i hope I am doing it right. thanks chris! i will check on it after a few days. – jan Feb 7 '10 at 6:03
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Yes, you can do that if you know the DNS settings of your server b.

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i have access to the dns settings of server b. its in asiaregistry.com the thing is i have added already an A record that points to server c but i get dns unresolved name error... what do i have to do next? – jan Feb 4 '10 at 11:27
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