Seperating web & e-mail for the same domain name???

[Mark]

no, it doesn't work that way. Virtual hosting is when one machine
server multiple domains or IPs. A request to yoururl.com, whether it
be email or http will get sent to the IP that the name resolves to in
the lookup tables. Now if you want to forward that request to another
machine that might possible, but my guess is that it would be easier
to set up the domain at the isp and have them forward mail requests to
you.

why would you want to do this, by the way?


On Wed, 08 Dec 1999 10:13:04 -0600, Andrew Ward <award at cisco.com>
scribbled:

>OK, so I have a domain name, and it points to a static IP address.
>Right?
>
>Now I have a DSL line feeding a small server that I want to send/
>receive mail from/to for about 30 users.
>
>But I don't want to be serving up web pages externally through
>a DSL line. I want my ISP (or another ISP) to host those web pages.
>
>But I want the e-mail and web pages at all be 
>
>	bozo at myplace.org
> 
>        and
>
>	www.myplace.org
>
>How do I tell my ISP this? Is this called virtual web hosting? 
>Virtual domain name? What? How is the e-mail and web traffic 
>separated when Internic points DNS lookups to the same address?
>(Or does it?)
>
>(The ISP in this case is California's Pacific Bell, with the
>small business "enhanced" DSL package.) They are stupid, so 
>I want to know exactly what i am asking for before I do.
>
>Where the heck can I find a FAQ on this stuff?... Can't seem 
>to find a good one.
>
>Thanks very much.
>
>-Andrew
>award at cisco.com

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