Hi Tom,
Thanks again for the answer. BUT my problem is not the
hosts file. That works fine. My issue is as follows:
I have multiple hosts (as in TOMCAT HOSTS) running on
the server. Each is mapped to a different context/
application. I need to be able to map ALL subdomains
to the same application as the www. subdomain.
Currently I have in the server.xml file:
<host name="domain.com">
<alias>www.domain.com</alias>
<alias>xx1.domain.com</alias>
<alias>xx2.domain.com</alias>
</host>
It is not practical to have a list of all subdomains
(which in this case are aliases) in the server.xml
file as they are dynamically created and deleted.
Looking forward,
Assaf
--- Tom Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Hosts file is hold-over from the pre-DNS method
> of finding IP
> addresses. Basically, there's a file - 'Hosts' -
> that holds addresses,
> in the format:
>
> domain_name ip_address eg
> myhost.co.uk 123.45.123.45
>
> At one time this was the only way that machines on
> the Internet knew the
> addresses of other machines, and a new Hosts file
> would be circulated
> (by email) to all the sysadmins who managed
> connected hosts. (Google for
> 'Jonathan Postel' if you want to know more about
> these early days.)
> Obviously, DNS has replaced all this, except that
> Hosts remains - in a
> Windows system you'll find it in:
> [windir]\System32\Drivers\Etc
>
> In Linux/Unix I think it's still in /etc ; I
> remember frantically
> editing /etc/hosts on many systems in the past!
>
> So this is all a part of server-name resolution
> within networking, not
> Tomcat.
>
> Tom
>
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