[plug] re: accessing web page

[Jon Miller]

James,
The reason for the server not being available was the httpd had stopped.
Also doing what Mark had suggested did not resolve the problem.  Before
anyone makes mention of it, I did change the serial number after making
changes and restarted named.

Jon

On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 12:22, James Devenish wrote:
> 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.'
> 
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Jon Miller <jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au>
MMT Networks Pty Ltd