Re: [cobalt-users] site/user access before propagation RAQ550

[Ursula <ursulasays@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 --- Bruce Timberlake <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >
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> > I'm holding out hope one day cobalt will give us
> an URL-method of
> > accessing sites still propagating.
> 
> How would that possibly work?  The only thing you
> could do is have 
> some sort of redirect from a site that has already
> propogated (which 
> I think is the basis of a solution that was provided
> in the past at 
> some point).  But the rewrite rules for the URL
> attempt to replace 
> what was entered with the "valid" URL for the site,
> which would still 
> fail.
> 
> I don't see this as a "Cobaltism" at all... it's the
> nature of DNS... 
> if I did the same thing on a plain vanilla Linux
> box, or NT, or 
> whatever, how would it be any different?

Obviously the main server name has to have
propagation, not necessarily its hosted domains. Once
you've hit the correct IP, the DNS' job is done.

These Cobalts are the first things I've come across
that can't do it, years back running vanilla redhat
we'd set them up with an URL, the site could be seen
from its own domain name (which was obviously the
point) but could also be called using the boxes DNS
name host.mainbox.com/dirname/ or /~dirname/. It's
certainly possible to do, but on every raq I've seen
it's been impossible to implement. 

The raq550 has the most convaluted site directory
structure I've ever seen. What on earth is a user
going to think about a directory called 83 or 49?





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