Re: [cobalt-users] A few questions

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 7/30/00 10:35 AM, Richard Kurth at rkurth@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I have a question that has been asked before. I have looked at the
> archives (for about the last two days) on this subject and what I find
> is a lot of conflicting ideas on how to do this. But no real answer.
> 
> I need to know how to allow my customers that are named based (not me) to view
> there web pages
> before the registration of there domain name filters down.

By far the best solution is to use a local hosts file.  That way nobody who
isn't 'in-the-know' can access your test site.

This overrides DNS and allows you to manually map names to IPs.

If you are running Linux (or most any type of *nix) the magic file is
/etc/hosts.  If you are running windows (god help you), you'll have to do a
bit of homework but it is in the windows or winnt directory somewhere, just
look for 'hosts'.

Cheers,
-k