[ale] Can't use public IP on local network

[Kenneth Ratliff]

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On Apr 13, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Richard Bronosky wrote:
> I see that you mention VirtualHosts. The weakness here is that each
> "machine" [interface/IP] can only be known by one name. Therefore,
> this does not help you with "name based virtual hosts" (VirtualHost
> *:80; ServerName myhost.mydomain) if you have multiple ServerNames
> that you would like to go to a single IP.

Sure you can, just need a NameVirtualHost directive, unless I'm  
totally misunderstanding you. But I can have apache answer for 30  
different domains if I want, all on the same IP.


> *I believe* that /etc/hosts is for name resolution that is unique the
> the client on which the /etc/hosts file resides (read: not common to
> the rest of the network). When you have a name resolution need that
> should apply to all/many clients, it should be maintained in some
> centralized manner. /me steps down from soapbox

Correct, hosts files are only locally significant.

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