Virtual services and IP aliasing (was Re: [PLUG] socf: questions)

[Bill Jonas <bj@netaxs.com>]

CIA reports from Mar 5 indicate Michael C. Toren may or may not have said:

>It depends what you're trying to accomplish.  If you're planning on
>setting up a number of machines on your test.net, it's probably better
>to have them all look at a single nameserver, rather than maintaining N
>copies of the /etc/hosts file.

Should have been more specific to start with.  There will be uno boxen
on my virtual.net.  I want to install an RDBMS and a web server on a
single machine for development/learning and be able to connect to it
with a web browser from the same machine (I guess the proper way to
state it would be to say that I want the virtual IP to loop back to the
web server.  I should get great throughput, though.  <g>)

>It's been a while since I've used lynx extensively, but I believe it
>will tell you where a link points to if you're "Advanced" mode.  I don't
>remember offhand if there's an easy way for it to tell you the URL of the
>page you're currently viewing, though.

Thanks, I'll poke around in it.  (I use it 'cause it's kind of a pain in
the ass to start X after I've logged into one VC to dial, another to ssh
in to read my mail and then need to look something up on the web.  Then
start X and save the URL to a temp file, CTRL-ALT-Fx to Yet Another VC,
login, display the file, and use GPM to copy the text into the email I'm
composing.  Whew!)

Bill
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