[ale] OT- sorta - DNS

[Jim Popovitch]

--- fgz <fzamenski at voyager.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jim,
> 
> Yup, it makes sense - I think. :) I've done auto-redirects in iPlanet ws
> before, but only with FQDN web instances having a unique IP for the
> instance, or otherwise, as a virtual instance (i.e. alias) within an
> instance (or some such-iPlanet speak), utilizing a non-standard port.
> Perhaps unlike Apache, which I don't know all that well, I'm not sure if
> iPlanet will allow domain instances only - in the form of
> https-smallbiz.com - or if it does, if it would even work, but it could
> be worth a shot. Still, would I not need to also push an IP for both www
> and smallbiz.com in DNS, as Jerald described previously? (Of course, the
> real domain in question is registered to us.)
> 

Yes, you would need to have a valid DNS record for every address that points to
the webserver.  The Apache "trick" just let you have control over what URL your
visitors wind up seeing and bookmarking regardless of the originating URL. 

-Jim P.