RE: [cobalt-users] RAQ3 access to moved domain before DNS setup propagates

["Richard @ iNET Solutions" <rrettich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When I go there I get the proper setup page (Welcome place-holder) from
the RAQ so I would say, yes, it works.


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-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Colberg
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:53 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ3 access to moved domain before DNS setup
propagates



> > > Create a host name entry with IP address in your hosts file to aid
in
> > > resolution to the IP of your RAQ.  I do it all the time when
building
> > > sites on a test server in-house before going out to production.
> >
> > Thanks, but that is a solution to the wrong problem.  I have no
problem
> > getting to the server.  The problem is that there are multiple
domains
at a
> > single IP address.  Going to that IP address...before the DNS
servers
point
> > the NEW domain to that IP will bring up one of the older domains
already
at
> > that IP address.
>
> I believe the solution Richard offered here should do exactly what you
want.
> Seemed to work fine for me the last time I had a new domain on a
shared
IP.
> When you add the correct entry to your local hosts file, you are not
just
going
> to an IP address -- you are essentially by-passing DNS on the web and
telling
> the browser via your local hosts file to go to this IP and get this
SITE.
The
> headers should tell Apache just what site you are looking for at that
IP
address
> and it should be served up accordingly.
>
> Could someone please correct me if I am mistaken.  Thanks.
>
> rks
>

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The server is not "local".  It is hosted remotely with an ISP who
allocates
a small block of IP addresses to me.  Modifying my "host" file does not
work.  Further, I need a solution that I can use with my hosting
customers
who want to load their site before it is live.

I have created  an actual example.  This is not a real domain, but my
RAQ3
knows about it with the following details:
new domain is www.xyztesting.org
IP address is 206.127.79.220

Can you get to it?

Steve Colberg, novice hosting provider


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