On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Art Lemasters wrote: > How can I set up two completely different FQDNs (two totally > different hostnames) on one box (e.g., my.domain.net &
Point both DNS entries at your IP address. You can only have your IP map to one of them in reverse DNS, though. If you absolutely have to have that, you need to have virtual hosting. > alsomy.otherdomain.net) so that this machine accepts traffic > on my.domain.net while appearing to be alsomy.otherdomain.net > to anyone who accesses it via the webserver or mailserver? ;-) You configure this with the webserver and mailserver software. For the mailserver it is easy, just put all the domains you want to receive mail for in sendmail.cw. If you only want to receive mail for one domain, the easiest is to set the system's domain name to that and forget about sendmail.cw. Of course, if you want to receive mail for both and also maintain separate lists of users for each domain then you must work harder. For the webserver, you can configure virtual hosting in a variety of ways. Of course, that's only necessary if you want to do webserving for both domains. If you only want to do webserving for one, just pretend the other one doesn't exist. > Do I need to run virtual hosting here? Will it work to > point A records from each of those host names to the same, > single IP address? Virtual hosting is a nebulous term. Yes, you can point A records from two domains to the same IP address.
