[TriLUG] Name-Based Virtual Hosting vs. GoDaddy, round 1

[Ryan Leathers]

Hmmmm...

A few weeks ago I built a nifty little DNS project that might be interesting
to newbie and pro alike.  It includes two zone masters running on top of
heartbeat from the ultra monkey project.  It also uses VIEW to handle both
internal and external DNS needs.  The newbies might want to gloss over the
ultra monkey / redundancy stuff, but I'll try to make some time for a recipe
for this project.  It could be built in an hour or two.



-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Carnes [mailto:jonc at nc.rr.com]
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 10:12 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Name-Based Virtual Hosting vs. GoDaddy, round 1


On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 09:45, Brian Henning wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>   I'm trying to do some name-based virtual hosting for a non-profit org.
> They are using GoDaddy to provide their DNS resolution.  GoDaddy appears
to
> use a redirector rather than actual pure DNS (I'm vague on what the proper
> technical terms are in this situation.  What I mean is, the DNS for the
> NPO's domain name still points to a GoDaddy server, which then redirects
the
> UA to my host, presumably by a http header with the target IP address).
>   The problem is, by the time the request makes it to my server, it's just
> "GET /" instead of "GET http://fully-qualified-url.org/" .  I've
discovered
> this by tail -f 'ing access_log and watching what happens when I try to
surf
> to the site.  I think this is because once GoDaddy redirects the UA, the
UA
> is using the IP itself instead of the domain name in its request, which
> confuses (or rather, fools) my name-based host into serving up the default
> /, which is a completely unrelated commercial site.

That being the case, you need to setup another (real) IP on that server
and have the non-profit site use that IP address - while your other
sites use only your original IP.

Alternately, you could just start doing DNS for the non-profit as well
as web.  DNS is dirt-cheap to buy and very easy to setup/maintain.

Jon

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