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at the same IP address. The rest is up to the webserver. Browsers
include a "Host:" header in their HTTP requests that allows a webserver
to differentiate between websites. Just configure "virtual servers" (or
some similar terminology) in your webserver.

Yes, you can run a DNS server on the same box as your webserver.
However, you need at least 2 nameservers for each domain, so you need to
get someone else to be a slave for your domains.


- Kevin

SERVERTROUBLE wrote:

> Hello good people, Can someone tell me how I can route 5
> diffrent domain names i.e (www.domain.com) to one static IP
> addresse and have the server automaticaly know wich website the
> person is looking for. To be mosre specific I have a time
> warner cable connection and i currently have 5 websites that i
> host with other companies I want to transfer those sites to my
> local server here and host them myself. The problem is i only
> have one IP and 5 websites. I can run just about any Operating
> system on the server linux to windows 200 server. What do i
> need to do?  Can a server be a dns server and a webserver at
> the same time if each site is only seeing about 20 hits a day.
> My current hosting company domain valet gives members free
> accounts and they let you use your own domain name registered
> with internic. How do they do this without giving away free
> IP's i know those websites are on the same machine but how do
> they route them with just the domain name? is it at the
> webserver level? are there indentifiers in a tcp/ip packet that
> tells a node the domain name.  Any help would be greatly
> apreciated as you can see i am frustrated to the point of
> insanity.
>
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