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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 12:31:16 -0400
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In article <3tu7a4$i66@news1.best.com>, John R. Haggis <haggis@netcom.com> wrote:
>
>Thank you, Brian. I'll check into this. Of course, it means I have to
>use up an IP address for each Web address I support... Can it be done
>with dummy (anonymous subnet) addresses? Or does it have to be in the
>actual subnet of the domain of the server machine?
I've never tried aliasing with arbritrary IP addresses, but I
suppose if you have routing to the domain you are aliasing, it
shouldn't be a problem.
>Better if the name server could do the aliasing on the basis of symbolic
>names...
You'll have to use real IP numbers until clients start sending
hostnames as part of the URL (HTTP 1.1?).
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org