Re: Tech Support policy question...

>isn't it monumentally obvious that enabling a
>virtual host for a domain that resolves to a certain IP address will cause
>that address to be added to the ifconfig tables?
Yes

isn't it monumentally obvious that altering any address that was added to 
the ifconfig tables should be performed in an other way than hacking a 
tennon script that hard codes data onto its self?
Yes




On 1/29/01 1:14 PM, Jon Nolan (jon@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote the following:

>How can a webserver possibly serve a site for which there is no IP
>interface?  Forgive me, but isn't it monumentally obvious that enabling a
>virtual host for a domain that resolves to a certain IP address will cause
>that address to be added to the ifconfig tables?
>
>Jon Nolan
>Web Dynamics, Inc.
>
>
>At 1:41 PM -0700 1/29/01, Stephan Wik wrote:
>>At 10:52 am -0800 29/1/01, Technical Support wrote:
>>
>>>This is not a bug.  It is due to misconfiguration of DNS.
>>
>>Let's be clear. There was a misconfiguration of DNS by our sysadmin.
>>But nowhere in the documentation or in the web interface was it
>>stated that because of this the IP address of the host in question
>>would be added to the ifconfig tables.
>>
>>The only reference I could find to the offending file was in the
>>technical PDF file where itools.sh is mentioned.
>>
>>I've given up on iTools so this is not such a big deal for me -
>>webmin and a thorough understanding of httpd.conf is turning out to
>>be the most robust solution. I just wanted to point out that such a
>>crucial aspect of hosting - i.e. the management of IP addresses - is
>>something that should only be done with the appropriate warnings to
>>the user.
>>
>>If iTools was really clever it would check the A record the CNAME
>>resolves to and, if it didn't point to itself, throw up an error
>>message. Much nicer than taking an IP that doesn't belong to it.
>>--
>>Stephan Wik                        http://www.anu.net/
>>ANU Internet Services         Lasso/WebCatalog Hosting
>>
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