From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 5 10:29:54 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 BA3B416A4BF for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:29:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bcec01.tiadon.net (BCEC.tiadon.com [69.27.132.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9541A43FEA for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:29:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from applications.tiadon.com (mail.tiadon.com [172.16.18.172]) by bcec01.tiadon.net with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id S150DRLK; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:29:51 -0500 Received: from nitanjared ([204.213.65.198]) by applications.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:29:52 -0500 Message-ID: <017401c373d3$4a505c20$c641d5cc@nitanjared> From: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." To: Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:29:40 -0500 Organization: DaleCo, S.P.---"the solutions people" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: converting internet addresses X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 17:29:54 -0000 From: To: Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 12:00 PM Subject: converting internet addresses > Dear BSD enthusiast, > Greetings. I am a newcomer to the BSD/Unix world. See below. > My question is this: "What is the difference between > what I am telling the DNS server and outgoing > gateway router to do when I enter into my browser > address box 'http://www.bsdcon.kwiki.org' and > when I enter into my browser > address box 'http://bsdcon.kwiki.org'?" No difference whatsoever, as you may have noted that both hostnames resolve to the same IP address. Likely they are different folders on the same server. This would be an example of "name based virtual hosting", which is possible since the implementation of HTTP 1.1 The server recognizes the browser's request by name (bsdcon.kwiki.org) and serves from the web folder configured to receive that request. www.bsdcon.kwiki.org sends you to some other folder in the same way, or perhaps it is unconfigured and sends you instead to the 'default' folder at that site. Seems unusual that it would be in DNS and not specifically configured, but that's a possibility. > My place of employment is a large > agency with thousands of client machines. Yeah, the California Dept of Transportation. OK. > Most of the clients use > Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional operating system. Most of the servers > use either Novell operating system, or I.B.M. Domino operating system. You said that already, too. I feel sorry for them, maybe ;-) Nonetheless, welcome to the world of FreeBSD. Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.