[cobalt-users] Basic server name/ISP DNS questions

["Brandon Trussell" <cbtrussell@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi again,

I finally put my RaQ4i's in the datacenter today, though they're not in 
production yet.

machine 1 is www.mydomain.com
machine 2 is www2.mydomain.com

Each box will host customer domains. The original thought was I would 
continue down this path, www3, www4, etc. and I would use a simple redirect 
as the "main" site on each box, so in essence driving anyone who HTTP'd 
directly to a machine by IP address would get the main site on machine 1 
instead (www.mydomain.com).

1) Is there an easier way to do this? via DNS perhaps? so that going 
directly to the IP of any machine results in viewing the main site on 
machine 1?

2) I now realize I could have named these boxes anything I wanted and 
created the same behavior...but does anyone know of any DRAWBACKS of using 
server names www, www2, etc.?

3) I will run primary DNS on machine 1, secondary on machine 2.

Let's say

ns1.mydomain.com
ns2.mydomain.com

My colo provider put entries in *his* DNS for www.mydomain.com and 
www2.mydomain.com. I am sorry I don't know what type of entries these were 
(I bet you guys know though! Sorry, I haven't gotten to the DNS/BIND book 
yet....eventually!....) but should I have my provider change his DNS to 
reference my nameservers, or leave them as is, pointing to my server names 
www & www2?

Thank you!!

Brandon

One last thing - does posting to the list from Hotmail cause any problems 
for anyone?

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