will Bind (OpenVMS) will permit 2 sites on 1 IP address (& how?)

[Brian Salomaki]

As long as you can set up IIS to use the name-based virtual hosts (Which I'm 
almost certain you can), there should be no problem doing things as you 
described.  You should not need to register xxx.org.com with anybody, just 
add it to your zone file for org.com.  Adding this is something that any 
beginner DNS administrator should be able to do, so your admin should have no 
problem doing that.  

I doubt you'll need the DNS & BIND book for this, but if you are going to be 
dealing more with the DNS server, or your organization has no competent 
administrator for the system, it might be a helpful read.

On Sunday 26 August 2001 02:56 am, MaryHelen_Fagan at mail.uttyl.edu wrote:
> I am involved with setting up a new center within our organization. I asked
> about having the address xxx.org.com instead of www.org.com/xxx for our web
> site as I was pretty sure that this could be done. I was told that in order
> to have a specialized domain like this, we would have to: (1) register it
> with NetworkSolutions.com, (2) assign an IP address to that name and (3)
> add it to the DNS server. After more discussion, I was told that in order
> to have a web address of xxx.org.com (instead of www.org.com/xxx), I would
> need to set up my own physical web server. Then the IP address of that web
> server could be entered into the DNS table.  Our main organizational web
> server is running IIS 4.0 on NT, and I did some research and found that I
> could use host header names with a single static IP address to host
> multiple sites on the server.
>
> However, all the documentation I found assumed you were using Windows 2000
> to manage the DNS/name resolution. In following up with my system
> administrator, I found our DNS server is completely separate, running on an
> OpenVMS platform using Digital's implementation of BIND.  Our administrator
> is quite clear that we cannot do what I want (run 2 sites on one physical
> machine) and so I wondered if our DNS server software was the problem. I
> have spent most of the day reading OpenVMS documentation online ? and, of
> course, am no wiser on if or how it could be done.
>
> This discussion list archives have been very helpful. I found several
> messages that indicated that we should be able to do what I wanted and that
> our DNS is not the bottleneck (unless somehow, we have an old OpenVMS
> version that won?t support the need??).  But, I want to make absolutely
> sure of what needs to be done:
> 1) you set up BIND to own the domains. Each would have its own zone and the
> address that will be in the URL should point to the same address in the
> zone file ? something like this:
> www.org.com        1.1.1.1
> xxx.org.com       1.1.1.1
> Question: Do you have to register xxx.org.com as a ?friendly name? if you
> own www.org.com? Do you need to have the "DNS & BIND" book to figure out
> how to do this without messing everything up?
> 2) Then you set up the virtual web site.
> 3) The IIS 4.0 interprets the host header in the client?s request and
> directs it to my virtual web site.
>
> Is there something I?m overlooking?? Some reason why you should put a site
> on a separate physical machine and not use DNS/Host header names to manage
> several sites on one machine?
>
> Thanks for any and all help!

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Brian Salomaki
Gambit Design Internet Services
110 E. State St., Suite 18, Kennett Square, PA 19348