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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!agate!news.mindlink.net!vanbc.wimsey.com!io.org!nobody From: taob@io.org (Brian Tao) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: WWW domain-name aliases on a single machine (Bind)? Date: 15 Jul 1995 12:21:55 -0400 Organization: Internex Online (io.org) Data: 416-363-4151 Voice: 416-363-8676 Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3u8pv3$3ao@ionews.io.org> References: <3tkhtd$6mk@news1.best.com> <3tp0t9$123@ionews.io.org> <87ivpbg7qu.fsf@interbev.mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: io.org In article <87ivpbg7qu.fsf@interbev.mindspring.com>, Robert Sanders <rsanders@interbev.mindspring.com> wrote: >On 9 Jul 1995 12:42:17 -0400, taob@io.org (Brian Tao) said: >> You *can* do it under Linux, but it's rather messy and requires >> patches galore and replacement binaries. > >A single patch != patches galore, unless my definition of "galore" is >way off. You can also do it patchlessly with modload and dummy >devices. Configuring dummy devices as additional binding IP addresses is messy, compared to a simple "ifconfig alias". Or you will need to patch and recompile the Linux kernel, as well as replacing your ifconfig and netstat binaries. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org