[ringzero] Re: (OT) Apache Named Virtual Hosting question
- From: Robert C Wittig <wittig.robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ringzero@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 10:14:08 -0600
Godwin Stewart wrote:
> Take a look at the headers of this mail. You'll see that every header
> makes sense because my mailer and the chain of MTAs between here and
> the outside world all make sense.
>
> First header:
>
> Received: from dragonfly.bonivet.net (localhost [127.0.0.1])
> by dragonfly.bonivet.net (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l13DFrgu008277
> for <ringzero@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Sat, 3 Feb 2007 13:15:53 GMT
>
> My mailer identifies itself to the copy of sendmail running on my
> workstation as "dragonfly.bonivet.net". sendmail itself sees the
> connection from 127.0.0.1 as coming from "localhost" (which is pretty
> much to be expected). The local MTA (sendmail 8.13.6) knows that it's
> running on a machine called "dragonfly.bonivet.net".
>
I ran the whois on bonivet.net, and of course, it is you.
Is dragonfly.bonivet.net the actual machine on which you host your
website, or what? I tried accessing http://dragonfly.bonivet.net and
http://www.bonivet.net and got a 'Forbidden', so I am guessing, 'not'.
This is something that I do not understand...
I own 3 domains, robertwittig.com, .net and .org. At the moment, dot-com
resolves to 70.142.248.60 ...machine name: compaq.robertwittig.com, and
dot-net and dot-org resolve to 70.142.248.61 ...machine name
supermicro.robertwittig.net.
These two machines are OpenBSD servers, not Desktop machines.
I also have one other BSD machine set up as a practice server, using
70.142.248.59, but I only turn it on when I am working on it, figuring
things out, like PF firewall rules. I arbitrarily named the machine
practice.robertwittig.org, but I never pointed the robertwittig.org
domain name at it... I just ran it as a bare IP address.
My Red Hat desktop only had one entry in it...
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
...and later, I added...
192.168.0.109 wavemaster.localdomain wavemaster
192.168.0.108 franblue.localdomain fran-blue-msi
...so that the Red Hat machine would recognise those two Windows 2000
Desktop machines, on the LAN.
So, what I don't understand, is how should a strictly Desktop machine,
that does not have a web server running on it, and has only localhost
sendmail running, and which share a single static IP address on the DSL
modem/router with any an all other non-server Desktop machines (through
the magic of NAT)... be named?
I put a lot of various machines temporarily on my LAN, because I build
and repair for clients... mostly Windows boxes, running XP, which have,
as far as I know, no FQDN whatsoever. When those Windows boxes go back
to their owners, being generic Windows XP Desktop machines, how will
their email headers look?
I don't want to take up too much of your time, so if this conversation
is going farther than you care to pursue it, no problem, but if you
don't mind explaining any of this, or pointing me to a URL that might be
useful to me, I would be grateful.
I like doing things as right as I can, and also, understanding how they
work, as well.
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