From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 2 14:46:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.jjsoft.com (fig2.figdav.com [208.152.114.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84F5B37B7CF for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 14:46:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jahanur@jjsoft.com) Received: from ns2.jjsoft.com (ns2.jjsoft.com [208.152.114.19]) by ns2.jjsoft.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id QAA19366; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:34:18 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:34:17 -0500 (CDT) From: Jahanur R Subedar To: Marc Silver Cc: "f.johan.beisser" , Nathan Vidican , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP vs CNAME In-Reply-To: <20000602213519.H50166@draenor.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I run a small ISP and I agree with him. Just make shure never to put Alias in the right hand side of Resouce Records if you have aliased a CNAME. Example : ; ;Alias ; free.my.domain IN CNAME freedom.my.domain ; ;Never put it like this. something.my.domain IN CNAME free.my.domain It wil give you a lot of problem. and confuses the named big time. Look on the book "DNS and Bind" Orielly Publishers. Jahanur On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Marc Silver wrote: > On the other side of the fence, I would have to say that I think CNAME's > is a better idea. I work for a large ISP and all our web servers use > HTTP 1.1 and CNAME's. Generally, it's only REALLY old browsers > (netscape 2 comes to mind) that have problems with this. IP address are > more difficult to maintain and keep track of, and your web server will > look a lot cleaner with just 1 IP on it, rather than thousands. :) > > Cheers, > Marc > > On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 12:23:29PM -0700, f.johan.beisser wrote: > > > > generally, i think it's better to do IP based virtualhosting. > > > > it's not so much of a performance issue, it just makes it cleaner with > > older browsers, and makes it easier to track problems with servers. > > > > just my $0.02. > > > > -- jan > > > > On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Nathan Vidican wrote: > > > > > We are a relatively small ISP looking to grow. We're now starting to do > > > virtualhosting for people, and thus far I've been setting up > > > virtualhosts using cnames. The thing is, we've currently three almost > > > entirely free class C banks of IP addresses, and I was wondering if it > > > would be better to use IP based virtualhosting, or stick with our > > > current scheme of using cnames to one host? > > > Could anyone explain the performance differences if any involved in > > > using IP vs CNAME virtualhosts? Or does it matter at all? Pors/cons, > > > that kind of stuff please. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Nathan Vidican > > > webmaster@wmptl.com > > > Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. > > > http://www.wmptl.com/ > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > +-----/ f. johan beisser /------------------------------+ > > email: jan[at]caustic.org web: http://www.caustic.org/~jan > > "knowledge is power. power corrupts. study hard, be evil." > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Jahanur R Subedar WWW.JJSOFT.COM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message