Re: [cobalt-users] Bypass server DNS

[Dennis <dkc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brandon Keim wrote:
> 
> Is their any difference if the other server was a RaQ and was using
> name-based?  How would that work? --- <<Referring to DNS>>
> 
> Thanks,
> Brandon Keim

No, not at all. The name based part of it is the job of the Http server.
If you are hosting a site name based then the http server goes and looks
at the location that was typed in the browser. It then sends you to the
directory the corresponds with the location in the browser, instead of
the site that is listed first for that IP. DNS and HTTP (Name based / IP
based) are two different services. DNS just points the domain to a
server (IP) it does not tell the domain where its documents are. That is
up to a properly configured HTTP server. There is no difference if you
are hosting the site on your server with the DNS on that server or the
DNS on one server and the HTTP service for that domain on the other.
They still are two separate services that operate apart.

Hope that helps.

- Dennis