[BlueOnyx:06648] Re: Multiple Sites to IP Address

[Ken - Precision Web Hosting, Inc]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Abdul Rashid Abdullah" <webmaster at muntada.com>
To: "BlueOnyx" <blueonyx at blueonyx.it>
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 6:36 PM
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, 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.
>
> In IIS, I can force host header resolution to the point where IP 
> resolution
> won't work.  In other words, http://www.sitea.com will work but not
> 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
>
>

Rashid


You could add mail.siteb.com  as a "web server alias" for the www.siteb.com 
site.

I do that with my site and my customer's sites.
E.g.
http://mail.precisionweb.net


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Ken M
Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
http://www.precisionweb.net