[SunHELP] IPs route

[Mike's List]

I'm just playing around with my network at home and learning so it's not
mission critical or such so hosting is probably not needed at the present
time, but thanks for letting me know...by DNS round-robin I take it you 
mean an entry like...

mike.com.	IN	A	???
www		IN	A	10.10.10.1
www		IN	A	192.70.125.1


- Mike


On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Tim Bell wrote:

> Mike --
> Let me see if I can break this down to you.
> 
> > is it possible to have www.mike.com to be 
> > 10.10.10.1 (on one card) and 210.10.105.1 
> > (on the other card)?   
> YES - simplest way is to leave apache at the default 
> (Assuming your using apache) config binded to port 80.
> Anything trying to reach port 80 via either ip address 
> will be served your website (mike.com).
> 
> >which IP/network would a user get when attempting
> >to get to my machine?
> The user will hit whatever is served up by a revolver. If you
> set mike.com in a DNS round-robin the user will get either 
> or IP (although I have found that they most likely get the first 
> IP listed in the DNS round-robin). If one of those IP's fail,
> 50-50 results will occur when people try to reach your site. 
> And as Mr Chase has mentioned - "In your case they'd get whichever 
> IP their dns server resolved to, which you might not have much 
> control over, due to intermediate servers along the way caching 
> the results." If your confidant that these DSL and cable connections are
> reliable, continue - if not, I would think twice about your whole
> scheme.
> If you would like I can host your site for $50 bucks and a six pack (per
> year)(dns hosting, pop3/imap email, ftp access, yadda, yadda, yadda) as
> long as it's not a porn site (SSL would be extra). I own part of a small
> hosting company -- that's how I can offer it so cheap.
> 
> > PS - do I also need to do anything special on the Solaris box?
> > /etc/defaultrouter or such? containing two gateways?
> 
> Add the route to your system's routing table.
> -Routing with Solaris-
> http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/routing.html
> 
> Timmy!
> p.s. wish me luck - moving back to Cali today to start a new
> position (so-long dotcoms, hello b2g).
> 
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