From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 26 21:13:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shorts.nts-online.net (dns2.nts-online.net [216.167.161.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB0937B422 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 21:13:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clcont@gmx.net) Received: from contrec (dialup-lbb-0750.nts-online.net [216.167.135.114]) by shorts.nts-online.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id f3R43Fn27340 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 23:03:15 -0500 Message-ID: <004401c15e9d$b8af57e0$0101a8c0@contrec> From: "Christopher Leigh" To: References: <200104270403.OAA26691@tungsten.austclear.com.au> Subject: Re: *.example.net Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 23:13:23 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ok. uhm. just wondering... i read somewhere that example.net is reserved because it's the example domain in the documentation... is this true? i can't remember where i read it. regards, christopher ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Landells" To: "Christopher Leigh" Cc: Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 11:03 PM Subject: Re: *.example.net > > clcont@gmx.net said: > > yall missed the point... > > it wasn't for mis-typing, it was so that they go to a different > > document root... > > > like blah.example.net goes to /www/hosts/blah, etc. > > > that's what it's for... > > I still think you're better off putting in separate records for each > site (even if they all have the same address). > > In BIND the syntax is pretty simple: > > * IN A 192.168.1.1 > > I don't know the syntax for djbdns... > > Tony > -- > Tony Landells > Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 > Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 > Level 4, Rialto North Tower > 525 Collins Street > Melbourne VIC 3000 > Australia > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message