From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 26 12:23:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F01937B401 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 12:23:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out005.verizon.net (out005pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AD6643F85 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 12:23:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([141.149.47.46]) by out005.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030626192351.YXUD20032.out005.verizon.net@mac.com>; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:23:51 -0500 Message-ID: <3EFB4845.1010801@mac.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:23:49 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John DeStefano References: <20030626185043.82750.qmail@web40610.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030626185043.82750.qmail@web40610.mail.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out005.verizon.net from [141.149.47.46] at Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:23:51 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mask IP:port with Domain Name X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 19:23:53 -0000 John DeStefano wrote: [ ...hitting return every 76 characters would be nice... ] > My question is on what I assume to be IP masking. When someone punches in my > domain name to reach the web site running on FBSD, their browser's address field > (well, actually it's the DNS doing it) instantly translates the domain name into > my actual IP address and port number. This is alarming for security reasons, as > well as relatives who know nothing about technology asking inane questions about > the disappearing web site name. Um. I consulted my magic eight ball, and it translated your question as: ] I'm trying to host a web site on a FreeBSD machine. My registrar, godaddy, ] offers a redirect service which sends requests from "www.mydomain.com" to your ] FreeBSD machine, which possibly has a dynamic IP? If so, have you set the hostname of the server via this section in your httpd.conf file: # 127.0.0.1 is the TCP/IP local loop-back address, often named localhost. Your # machine always knows itself by this address. If you use Apache strictly for # local testing and development, you may use 127.0.0.1 as the server name. # ServerName www.mydomain.com Also, are you running apache on port 80, or is that being blocked by your ISP? -Chuck