From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 5 10:32:09 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 A558E16A4C0 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:32:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out001.verizon.net (out001pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5623143F85 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:32:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.237.14.199]) by out001.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030905173207.VQGQ1299.out001.verizon.net@mac.com>; Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:32:07 -0500 Message-ID: <3F58C891.3040209@mac.com> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 13:32:01 -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/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lee_Shackelford@dot.ca.gov References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.5.0 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 out001.verizon.net from [68.237.14.199] at Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:32:07 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: converting internet addresses 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: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 17:32:09 -0000 Lee_Shackelford@dot.ca.gov wrote: > "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'?" In this particular case, there is no difference. Both names point to the same IP address: 1-sec# nslookup www.bsdcon.kwiki.org Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 Name: www.bsdcon.kwiki.org Address: 65.214.160.247 2-sec# nslookup bsdcon.kwiki.org Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 Name: bsdcon.kwiki.org Address: 65.214.160.247 You see different sites for the different names because the server is using named virtual domains. In other words, the fact that your browser connects via one name or the other is the reason why you see different content as the result. -- -Chuck