Re: DNS aliasing

[mike808@projects.sourceforge.net]

> Sounds like you just want to do a CNAME like this in your otherdomain.com
> zone file:
> 
> bob                     CNAME   alice.somedomain.com.
> 
> People's resolvers should then check with the named in charge of 
> somedomain.com for alice and be sent to wherever it currently resides.

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> You shouldn't need mod_rewrite if you just set up named virtual hosting
> on the web server.  Both sites should resolve to the same IP address so
> Apache should simply have named virtual hosts on that IP for both sites.

But then there's two distinct sites. I already know how to setup virtual hosts, 
since I said that.

I wrote:
> In particular, http requests should be able to put up a virtual host for 
> either. mod_rewrite can be used to send one to the other if this isn't needed.

The reason I would use mod_rewrite (or Apache's builtin Redirect directive) is 
if virtual hosts aren't needed, and I want to actually "send" visitors to 
bob.otherdomain.com over to alice.somedomain.com.

This is in the case that you don't want to serve the same content under a
different host name visible in the URL, and if you want users to "know" they
are really visiting alice.somedomain.com and that bob is just a bird dog site.

Mike/

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