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

["Sputnik Internet" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I did the same thing.
I changed the settings to what they should have been, pulled my hair out for
a day, pinged it every 5 minutes, and a day later it fixed itself.


-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gary S. Ownsby
Sent: 02 December 2000 05:57
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cobalt-users] Shared IP Address: DNS / Website - Good / Bad
Practice?
Importance: High


We have a remotely hosted RaQ3i.

DNS is running on base IP address.
We have also leased 16 addition IP addresses.
We are using FrontPage 2000.
Base IP website projected hits per year: 500,000

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.  To do so, we were told to name the RaQ3 host as
"WWW".  So it appears as www.ourcompanyname.com.  We registered the DNS
server name with Network Solutions as www.ourcompanyname.com.  Registration
was successful.  We published a website to the base IP address.  DNS and the
website work fine.

Ordinarily DNS servers are named something other than "WWW" like "NS1", etc.
This would seem to preclude sharing the same IP with a website.  Is sharing
a base IP address between a DNS and website good or bad practice??  It seems
to work but are there potential problems that we were not made aware of?  We
need to know before we begin a mass migration of existing websites on other
servers to the RaQ3 which will require modifying the DNS record for each
one.

For speed, please reply to mailto:gary@xxxxxxxxxx

Thank you.

Gary

Gary S. Ownsby
Smoky Mountain Webs
A Division of The Heritage Group
http://www.smokymountainwebs.com
gary@xxxxxxxxx


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