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>Everything I read talks about using CNAMES when doing virtual hosting. I
>cannot seem to get this to work and I do not fully understand it.
> ...
>
>So my question is.. is this an alright way to do it? Why do I need CNAMES?
You don't. CNAMES are an unnecessary construct of DNS. Just point the domain
to the IP it belongs to, and save everyone some work. Once your nameserver
has pointed someone (the client) to the IP of your box (the server); it
is up to the software listening on each port of the server to figure out what
domain is actually being requested. For email, your mail program simply
reads in the values from RCPT TO entries. For the web, the client is
supposed to send a "Host: www.example.com" header, which Apache (or other)
can then recognize as a virtual domain.
obHumor: Quote from the first line of the job posting referenced in
the thread 'UD job opening - act quick!':
"Bachelor's degree or MCSE,"...
What a world, what a world... :)
Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
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