I had hoped to catch you with my next email before you bothered responding to this one.
William Astle wrote: > This will be my last public reply on this topic as it appears Jon and I > are degenerating into opposing monologues. > > Jon wrote: >> At a guess, I would submit that since domains are read left to right, >> DNS queries run until they fail. Once the search fails (as it would at >> the subdomain part that has no DNS entry), the main domain IP is >> provided. As long as the server that picks up at that main IP knows to >> look for subdomain X, it will handle the redirection. > > BZZT. It doesn't work that way. Maybe some web browsers might do that > but if they do, it is incorrect behaviour. > > I highly recommend you read a book that explains DNS, such as the > excellent DNS & Bind book. > >>> There is absolutely no possible way to create a subdomain without having >>> a DNS entry for it. >> You, sir, are wrong :) > > With all due respect, sir, you are the one who is wrong. I do this for a > living and I have been for a decade. It's my job to know how subdomains > and DNS work. > > You mentioned in another email that you use zoneedit for your domains. > I'd be willing to wager that you have your zoneedit configuration set up > to include a wildcard DNS entry. If that is the case, then you do, in > fact, have DNS entries for your subdomains. > >> Try it. Someone must be running Apapche2 and willing to spend 2 minutes >> doing this. > > I DO run Apache 2. There is no "a2ensite" program that comes with it. > That appears to be a distribution specific collection of magic. > > I stick by my statement that there absolutely has to be a DNS entry for > a subdomain for it to work at all. Without the DNS entry, the request > never gets to Apache so in this case, Apache is a red herring. Either > some magic is going on under the hood to create the DNS entries or there > is a wildcard. > -- http://www.jonwatson.ca +1.403.875.6048 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
