[plug] www?

[Craig Foster]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
> Behalf Of Marcos Raul Carot Collins
> Sent: Monday, 7 January 2008 8:53 PM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: [plug] www?
> 
> Hi there!
> 
> Another strange problem over here.
> 
> It seems that from my webserver, I can access my site writting in the
> browser
> http://www.carotcollins.no-ip.org, but I can only access it from other
> computers outside my home network using http://carotcollins.no-ip.org
> 
> For some reason the www just refuses to connect to my server. :(
> 
> My hosts file is as follow:
> 
> ------------------------
> 127.0.0.1 localhost carotcollins www www.carotcollins
> www.carotcollins.no-ip.org agate
> 127.0.1.1 carotcollins.no-ip.org carotcollins agate
> 
> # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
> ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> fe00::0 ip6-localnet
> ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
> ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
> ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
> --------------------------
> 
> agate is the name I use internally for that computer.
> 
> Thank you very much!
> 
> Marcos R. Carot Collins

www.carotcollins.no-ip.org resolves internally (using your hosts file)
but externally there's nothing listed for www.carotcollins.no-ip.org

I'd suggest looking into whether no-ip.org allows "wildcard dns". It
means you could choose www. , mail. , turtlenose. , or even
marcos.carotcollins.no-ip-org as they would all point to whatever
carotcollins.no-ip.org points to. Then you can start playing with
virtual domains on your webserver :)

CraigF.