Is it possible to set a ddns hostname to access a name-based virtual host?

[Sam Wilson]

In article <gnmdf1$141d$1 at sf1.isc.org>, hongyi.zhao at gmail.com wrote:

> On Friday, February 20, 2009 at 19:51, serge.fonville at gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> > Is it possible to set a ddns hostname, say through
> > http://www.changeip.net/ , without using *some_domain* itself, to 
> > access this file? 
> 
> > Not entirely sure what you are actually trying to achieve.
> > Could you provide a concrete example of the situations you are trying to 
> > achieve?
> 
> Let me give an example to illustrate my problem:
> 
> In the following url, the prola.aps.org is a name-based  virtual host:
> 
> http://prola.aps.org/pdf/PRB/v1/i1/p1_1
> 
> On  the other hand, my institute has subscribed to prola and many other
> journals, so I want to use some self-made and easy-to-memory hostnames for
> each  of them.  For example, I want to use the following url to access
> the above one:
> 
> http://myprola.myddns.org/pdf/PRB/v1/i1/p1_1
> 
> Is this possible?

This is what browser bookmarks are for, isn't it?

Sam