Re: [cobalt-developers] Virtual sites sharing IP address

["@lfa" <lynet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 jale@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:


if u want to test sites before they are defined in DNS
define the site in /etc/hosts 

on windooze use %SYSTEMROOT%\Hosts.
or %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. on NT


the hosts file is read before the machine try to do lookups in DNS


@lfa


> >So, whats going wrong here? Must Virtual Sites be defined in a nameserver 
> >before a site can be created when sharing IPaddress?
> 
> The site *seen* by an IP address is arbitrary - and if it isn't, still
> think of it that way. These are VIRTUAL sites, if they were IP accessible
> they wouldn't be VIRTUAL.  If they ftp in w/the IP as the host and their
> proper LOGON ID, they will go to the correct place, but there is no way
> (that I know of) to web-test until it has a real name attached via DNS.
> 
> Danny
> 
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