[plug] re: accessing web page

[James Devenish]

In message <sefcc0c3.074 at mmtnetworks.com.au>
on Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:09:51PM +0800, Jon  Miller wrote:
> @       IN      SOA     gateway.mmtnetworks.com.au. root.mmtnetworks.com.au. (
[...]
> gateway     IN      A       192.168.1.3
[...]
> www     IN      CNAME   gateway

Jon, this looks odd. It says:

www.gateway.mmtnetworks.com.au. -> gateway.gateway.mmtnetworks.com.au
gateway.gateway.mmtnetworks.com.au. -> 192.168.1.3

In message <5.0.2.1.2.20030628063756.01ea5b90 at mail.mjg.id.au>
on Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 07:39:20AM +0800, Mark J Gaynor wrote:
> 'www     IN      CNAME   gateway' is another way of saying 
> www.gateway.mmtnetworks.com.au.
[...]
> If you are trying for www.mmtnetworks.com.au then 'www     IN      A
> 203.153.229.84' should work.

Mark:

1/ You are right that it would work, but only so long as the web server
is set to behave like www.mmtnetworks.com.au when it is contacted as
www.gateway.mmtnetworks.com.au. This might not be the case if it is used
for a lot of virtual hosting. We could easily check to see whether this
is the case or not, except that www.mmtnetworks.com.au doesn't appear to
server TCP port 80 to the wider internet (I get 'connection refused').

2/ He could more easily use 'www IN CNAME www.mmtnetworks.com.au.'