Virtual Domains
Kevin McKinnon
kevin at sunshinecable.com
Thu Sep 14 23:19:20 UTC 2000
> I have two domains (actually much more, but using yours...)
>
> sunshinecable.com
> dockmaster.net
>
> I want users who use news.sunshinecable.com and news.dockmaster.com to see
> an entirely different list of servers. Ideally, these would be public
> servers that you'd just connect to. If that can't be done, what is the best
> way to implement this? Here is what I've seen:
>
> - Give each domain their own login (login: domain, password: news! etc.)
> - By login, specify what newsgroups they see
>
> Is this the best that I can do? The server has 7 IP addresses bound to it,
> but I have much more than 7 domains which would like news services. Here's
> my background: I offer a free webhosting/email service as a hobby. All of
> the organizations must be non-profit and must get no more than 30,000 hits
> per day. It's a pretty diverse group so I don't want any groups from
> certain domains to get mixed in with the site that I run for the
> Presbyterian Church. ;-)
Hi Michael,
Well, since you've got multiple IP addresses bound to the server,
here's one possibility:
nnrpd can be run in daemon mode, and you can specify which IP address
it binds to. (So far, so good. Separate nnrpd's for each domain.)
*However*, you'd need to patch nnrpd to be able to specify alternate
config files, since nnrpd looks to pathetc/readers.conf and you'll
need separate configs for each copy of nnrpd running on these
separate IPs.
Someone else on the list may have already invented such a patch.
I've certainly seen people asking how to do this several times over
the last couple of years.
Otherwise, the first solution of having username/password
authentication for each virtual server remains a workable option.
Sorry I can't give you a complete working solution -- the patch I
described is a little beyond *my* C programming abilities!
Hope this helps!
Best regards,
Kev
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