[PLUG] Virtual hosting IP and namebase

Mike De La Mater mikedela at ipns.com
Fri Apr 26 03:45:15 UTC 2002


Sure, Josh. Just make the DNS point to the IP.

4/25/02 8:17:21 PM, "Josh Orchard" <josh at emediatedesigns.com> wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>I have been virtually hosting for a few sites by using IP numbers.  What I
>would like to know if I can continue to do that and add ones that do not
>have their own IP?
>
>So, for example....
>
>hostname         IP
>host1.com        123.123.123.123
>host2.com        123.123.123.124
>
>host3.com        no IP  but would resolve to 123.123.123.123
>
>Then in Apache and proftp I could setup the hostname to resolve
>correctly.
>
>Question is what do I do with if they try to login with the IP?  Can I
>stop that?  Is there a way to only allow connections with the name?  Can I
>do use postfix to have if do the multiple names as well without the IP or
>having them all go to the same IP?
>
>Just wondering if adding another name is going to cause problems because I
>currently have an IP for each hostname on the machine and the DNS record
>has that as well.
>
>Thanks for the help.
>
>Josh
>
>
>
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