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From: Dan Langille <dan.langille_at_dvl-software.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 10:55:23 +1200
Message-Id: <199908212255.RAA02825@metis.host4u.net>

Is anyone on Saturn cable modem hosting a domain at home?

Here, under ADSL, I'm running several domains, a dozen or so web
sites, a few mailing lists, and an ftp server. All very low volume.

The one thing I would like to have is a static IP. That's Saturn. Another
thing I would like to experiment with is a range of public IP addresses
with reverse DNS delgated to me. Anyone doing this via Saturn cable
modem?

For the not-so-technical. A web server can host more than one web site
using virtual domains. A mail server can do the same thing for mail.
With DNS, if you do nslookup on unixathome.org you get my IP
address. If you do nslookup on that IP address you get xtra. I want to
get unixathome.org, not extra. Here's an example:

$ nslookup
Default Server: localhost.int.nz.freebsd.org
Address: 127.0.0.1

> www.unixathome.org
Server: localhost.int.nz.freebsd.org
Address: 127.0.0.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: freebsddiary.yi.org
Address: 210.55.118.72
Aliases: www.unixathome.org

> 210.55.118.72
Server: localhost.int.nz.freebsd.org
Address: 127.0.0.1

Name: 210-55-118-72.ipnets.xtra.co.nz
Address: 210.55.118.72

And if you have more than one IP address assigned to you, each IP
address can deal with a different domain. It's nice to have, but is more
a research and development item for me.

The following URLs might help:

http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd/virtualhosts.htm
http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd/newdomains.htm

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