>At 11:01 AM 2/29/00 -0500, Nick Bastin wrote:
>> >Of course. Virtual hosting for example.
>>
>>Ok, this is a *terrible* example. Anybody using multiple IPs for virtual
>>hosting is contributing to a misallocation of IP address space. If you're
>>still using a web server that doesn't support HTTP/1.1, find one that does.
>
>Nick, are we going to start THAT thread again?
>
>I'll just say this and crawl back in the woodwork: I have a domain name,
>fluent-access.com. That domain name has an entry for
>www.fluent-access.com. That A record can contain only one thing: an IP
>address.
Of course...your web server is going to have to have at least 1 A record.
Nobody's disputing that. I don't really want to get into this thread again
either, but it seems to me that you get a win in administration with not
using IPs as well, although if you have this all automated, it's probably
not an issue. I'm hoping that the days of arguing this point as a browser
issue are over - time has a way of handling these things.
>Now, when I use a Web server that is also hosting a couple hundred other
>domain's site, there is no way in the DNS to indicate that.
Huh?
>Alternatively, when I decide to bring www.fluent-access.com in-house, all I
>need to do is have that A record repointed to an inside IP address (I have
>five at the moment).
Yes, granted, migration of existing sites that don't have actual A records
can possibly be a bit of a pain. However, if you control your own DNS, or
have a provider that does that has at least slightly better customer
service than Network Solutions, this shouldn't be a big deal. When you
move it in-house, it'll obviously need an IP, so you put up the site
in-house, change the A record in the DNS, wait a few days for it to
propagate, and then remove the external site (shouldn't be getting any hits
at this point anyhow).
-- Nick Bastin Software Developer OPNET Technologies- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
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