Re: OT: MS IIS 6 virtual server configuration

On 6 Mar 2008, at 15:37, Cornelius Jaeger wrote:

> hi patrick
>
> On 06.03.2008, at 16:27, Patrick Middleton wrote:
>
>> Not sure what you mean...
>>
>> On my Mac from which I'm doing testing?  No, and I don't need to.   
>> I can use telnet with IP addresses, pass in the desired site's  
>> FQDN as the HTTP Host header.
>>
>> On the IIS6 windowbox?  It's not mine and I have no access to it,  
>> other than HTTP to port 80.  Does that machine have a hosts file  
>> which IIS consults and which is required to match?  Hmmm.  Don't  
>> need that with Apache virtual hosting.
>
> depends on what you are running.
> the wo adaptor for example is very finicky when it can't resolve  
> it's own FQDN, which can be the case if the server is on a virtual  
> lan, or has several interfaces with different ip's is using  
> multihoming etc.
> so you don't need to make the dns match the ip of the server you  
> can take the server's current ip and map it using the hosts file
> this article is actually really good and short:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file
>
> good luck
>
> cornelius
>

OK I've got you ... the Windows server does have a hosts file and  
services may consult it.  Thanks for the tip.

-- Patrick