[BlueOnyx:06647] Re: Multiple Sites to IP Address

[Abdul Rashid Abdullah]

Dan,

That sounds like a good approach.

Regards,

Rashid


On 3/10/11 10:49 PM, "Dan Porter" <dan at twinwolf.net> wrote:

> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: Abdul Rashid Abdullah <webmaster at muntada.com>
> To: BlueOnyx <blueonyx at blueonyx.it>
> Sent: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:36:43 -0500
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:06645]  Multiple Sites to IP Address
> 
>> > As everyone knows, you can have multiple sites for an IP address when SSL
>> is 
>> > not needed.  However, there is a side effect.  I had a customer who put in
>> > mail.siteb.com and since there wasn't a web alias in the configuration, but
>> > another site, it resolved to www.sitea.com <http://www.sitea.com/> ,
>> because when it resolved the IP,
>> > that site was the IP address that was I guess the first site.
>> > 
>> > Of course, now he is upset because he has no affiliation with www.sitea.com
>> <http://www.sitea.com/> .
>> > 
>> > In IIS, I can force host header resolution to the point where IP resolution
>> > won't work.  In other words, http://www.sitea.com <http://www.sitea.com/>
>> will work but not
>> > MailScanner warning: numerical links are often malicious:
>> http://10.10.10.10 <http://10.10.10.10/> .
>> > 
>> > How could we accomplish the same thing with BlueOnyx?
>> > 
>> > What I had to do in the mean time, was add all of the A records to the web
>> > aliases, but my thought is if he types in the IP address, he will get
>> upset. 
>> > Of course, I could just simply give him his own IP address and I might have
>> > to do that for this customer, but what about other customers?
>> > 
>> > Regards, 
>> > 
>> > Rashid 
>> > 
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> ------- End of Original Message -------
> 
> 
> My solution to that problem was to always use my support domain name as the
> first site of an IP address and then put a generic "Page Not Found" as the
> index page.  Then, regardless of which other site with the same IP address was
> incorrectly accessed, it gave the generic "Page Not Found" message along with
> a message to contact myself as the hosting company.   This solved the problem
> for us and the clients never ended up at the wrong site.
> 
> Hope that helps, 
> 
> 
> Dan Porter 
> Twin Wolf Technology Group, LLC
> 
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