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propman
I wnet to my registrar for one of my domians and changed the
dns name servesr as relayed in my welcome email.

Do I need to do anything here ?
If so, where ?

Thanks
rabbit994
Are you using your own DNS servers? If not, are you using SM/TP DNS servers? I need some more information before I can figure out what's going on here.
propman
Hi,
I am using SM/DNS servers ..
Thanks
eddy2099
Yes, there is a fundamental step which seems to be left out most of the time and that is to include your site information inside SM's nameservers. The nameservers is sort of a phone book and the entry does not automagically appear in there, they have to be placed.

In a way, submitting the dns changes at your registrar is like telling someone if they want to find you to check the phone book. But if you are unlisted, they cannot find you. So for each and every site you have on the machine, you need to go to Orbit, select Network and then Domain Admin. Then submit a DNS ticket which would contain your domain name and the IP address which is set up on your machine.

With that done, it should work.
propman
I figured I had to do something, but didn't see it.

I have some other domains that I would also like to point to the
same site(url). Is this something I can do here, with SM, or do I need to set
up url forwarding with my registrar ?
eddy2099
Which OS and Control Panel are you using ? Basically you could set them up on the server to do the forwarding. This involved setting the dns server to that of SM and on your server, you just need to change the http configuration for the site to accept the various domain pointers. Doing it on the server would allow not only www.forwardedsite.com to point to www.yoursite.com but also www.forwardedsite.com/page.html to refer to http://www.yoursite.com/page.html .

If you do the URL forwarding, only the domain name is forwarded but the subsequent pages are not aliased.
propman
I am running w2003 Standard but no control panel. Would I need one
to handle multiple domains all pointing to the same site ?
rabbit994
What are you using for a web server? IIS or Apache? The answer is no however. Both support aliasing in domains
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