[ALUG] How to manage domain names on an ADSL connection?

[MJ Ray]

cl at isbd.net wrote:
> What's the easiest and/or neatest way of sorting this out?  Obviously
> my basic requirement is to make my slackware box think it's
> isbd.ltd.uk and to hide 84-45-228-40.no-dns-yet.enta.net completely.
[...]
> It's really only the HTTP issues that I want/need to resolve, can
> Apache virtual hosting do anything for me - I suspect not as that is
> only if I have multiple IP addresses *actually* resolving to my
> machine. [...]

HTTP/1.0 or later can cope fine with different web sites resolving to
the same IP address.  Learn about Apache Name-based Virtual Hosting at
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/name-based.html

It won't allow SSL services in a very neat way because there's a
circular problem: server needs to know its own hostname before
connection in order to use the right SSL certificate, but the hostname
being requested is sent in the request after the connection is made.

Hope that gets you started,
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