Re: multiple hostnames
Chris Wagner wrote:
>At 04:42 PM 1/25/2006 -0600, Rodney Richison wrote:
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>>What I don't want, is for dnsstuff or whatever to say, "machine claims
>>to be ns1.rcrnet.net when the registrar says it's ns3.customerdomain.com."
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>>From the point of view of the network, there is no such thing as "a
>machine". There are just ip addresses. To give one box two network
>identities u just have to bind the network processes to only one ip address.
>Normally processes bind to all interfaces/ips and that's the only way
>anybody could know that "this machine's not what it says it is". Have all
>ur normal processes only listen on the standard ip for that box. Then for
>the alterno ip, only bind is listening. The alt ip can have it's own
>hostname, A record, reverse DNS, etc.
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This was the part I was missing. I got a private email as well
explaining it.
Once again, I'm enlightened. Seems to happen often! :)
Thanks!
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Highest Regards,
Rodney Richison
RCR Computing
http://www.rcrnet.net
118 N. Broadway
Cleveland, OK 74020
918-358-1111
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