Hosting multiple domain names by using ONLY one static ip

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Wed Jan 3 15:38:09 UTC 2001


In article <92ven0$sah at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Peter Liu <peliu at home.com> wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Happy New Year.
>
>I am a newbie to DNS.
>
>Is it possible to host multiple domain names on a Linux/Win 2000 server by
>using ONLY one STATIC ip?
>
>Is it's possible, what's the procedure?  I mean, how is the DNS server going
>to be configured?  Is "Virtual Hosting" the solution to that?
>Or, where can I find more info on "hosting multiple domains"?

Yes, name-based virtual hosting is the solution; just point all the DNS
entries to the same IP.  Everything else is done in your web server
configuration.  If you have questions about that, you should ask in a web
server newsgroup, e.g. comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix.

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