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Re: Re[2]: [cobalt-users] see a virtual site before nameservers are changed to it
- Subject: Re: Re[2]: [cobalt-users] see a virtual site before nameservers are changed to it
- From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat Mar 23 12:47:11 2002
- Organization: Front Street Networks LLC
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Wednesday 20 March 2002 02:55 pm, Phil Beynon wrote:
> > Is this valid for a virtual site as well?
>
> As far as I know yes,
> As I understand it what happens is the ip address points it to the server
> then apache decides which site you get based upon the site name.
> I'm not sure what would happen if it was the only virtual site on an ip
> address though.
>
It works for any type of a site. (hosts file)
The resolver gets the IP from the hosts file, preventing the client from
doing a gethostbyname() function call which would FAIL.
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Gerald Waugh
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