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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!olivea!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sover.net!news.monad.net!usenet From: Paul Venezia <pvenezia@top.monad.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Help with virtual hosts Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 14:00:23 -0400 Organization: MonadNet Corp. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <3236FE37.497A@top.monad.net> References: <506oup$pj5@news.cais.com> <01bb9f9b$6560a380$1f02fbcc@ricky.bigeasy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jpj.hq.monad.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02Gold (Win95; I) Richard Windmann wrote: > > Shaleh <noone@nowhere.net> wrote in article <506oup$pj5@news.cais.com>... > > > Please post instructions on how to set up virtual servers on a BSDI > > 2.1 machine. We need .com resolution for web pages, ftp, and e-mail. > > Please be as verbose as possible. Thank you. > > Setup or instruct your name servers to point the virtual host names to the > virtual IP address. Once the name servers are updated, do the following... > > Add the following lines to the VERY END of /etc/netstart using vi if you > are a masochist, or pico if smart... > > ifconfig lo0 alias 204.251.2.51 > arp -s 204.251.2.51 00:c0:df:43:c0:0e pub > > Where 204.251.2.51 is the virtual IP address, and 00:c0:df:43:c0:0e is the > hardware address of your NIC (network card). You cannot simply make up a > NIC address, you must know what it is. To find out, type... > > arp -a > > This will return... > > yourhost.yourdomain.com (204.251.2.10) at 00:c0:df:43:c0:0e I'm running about 20 virtual domains on my system, and I have yet to specify a MAC address for the network card in the /etc/netstart. Just the alias works fine for me. -- Paul Venezia - MonadNet System Administrator MonadNet Corporation | Email: request@monad.net | Information:(603)352-7619 322 Winchester St. | http://www.monad.net | TechSupport:(603)358-2497 Keene, NH 03431-3936 | http://top.monad.net/~techsupport | Fax:(603)357-1267