Re: [cobalt-users] Shared IP Address: DNS / Website - Good / Bad Practice?

[Alfredo <alfredo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The company we lease the RaQ3 from said that we could run a website on the
> base IP address along with DNS service.  This would basically save using one
> of the 16 additional IPs.

You can run web sites off the same IP as the domain name server, 
sure. The functions are completely different so there's no real 
"conflict".

But I'm sort of puzzled by two things.

First off, why name the Raq with a www hostname? You can very easily 
have it named NS or Admin or whatever and use that for dns and ALSO 
have a hostname web site with that domain on the same IP without any 
problems. In fact, we do this for one of our web sites.

Secondly, Gary, if you guys have 16 IPs why NOT use one of them for 
this web site? You can have over 60 sites per IP without any 
configuration changes to Apache. Not to say it's a problem 
technically but it's always a bit cleaner and more efficient 
administratively to use a separate IP for the DNS server, I think and 
with 16 of these things you have a lot of room with which to work.

Alfredo
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