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

["Cobalt" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 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 --

When I enter the IP, I come to Java Bob's Deli page.

When I add the above IP address and www.xyztesting.org to my HOSTS file:

127.0.0.1 localhost
206.127.79.220 www.xyztesting.org

...and enter the domain in my browser, I come to a new Cobalt default page --
"Welcome to the Web Site of www.xyztesting.org. This page is a place holder for
the home page of your own web site."

Looks like the solution works fine from here.  Just do a search on your machine
for the HOSTS file and add the entry just like above -- that is a TAB between
the IP and the domain name, by the way, not a space.

You can take the same file and just ask your customer to save it to the correct
directory on their machine.  On Win2K it is in "C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc."
It is in "C:\Windows" on my Win98 machine.


rks