Re: Playing with domains: virtual host

[Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL>]

Hi,

thanks for thinking with me on this idea, but it turned out to be a dead
end.

Thanks!
Sebastiaan

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Alvin Oga wrote:

>
> hiya
>
> >
> > - the webserver from a provider. The address is www.cosjoan.box.nl - I
> > have no access to this computer (except for uploading pages)
> >
> >
> > I want that when someone enters www.sacred-key.org the page at
> > www.cosjoan.box.nl is displayed. The most direct way to do this is to
> > enter a line like this to db.sacred-key:
> > www             IN      CNAME   www.cosjoan.box.nl.
>
> that works
>
> > But the problem is that www.cosjoan.box.nl is a virtual host and has the
> > same ip as the webserver's homepage, www.box.nl.
>
> unless they give you an ip#...
>
> the ip# for any virtual domain will be the real ip# of the
> hosting machine
>  	- nothing you can do about it... unless you have access to
> 	the dns records on their domain ...
>
> 	telnet www.a.com
> 	telnet www.b.com
> 	telnet www.c.com
>
> 	and the ip# will all be the same as www.xyz.com if its hosting all
> 	3 virtual domains
>
> 	its only different if they give a, b and c a different ip#
> 	that all sits on xyz.com...
>
> c ya
> alvin
>