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On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 13:39, sjm <sjm.mlists at gmail.com> wrote:

> > ... of course, when I entered http://208.43.84.98 I got to
>
>> a place-holder page for cPanel. So it's not a perfect method...
>>
>> At any rate, the short answer is: if you know the I.P. address of the
>> web site then you don't need DNS -- but DNS does make it a lot easier!
>>
>
> As you saw, this doesn{t work reliably if there are virtual sites on a web
> server.  All the sites have the same IP address, but the webserver uses the
> name to know which site to display.
>

The name is contained in the http header. All you have to do is add the name
to a hosts file, and the named virtual host will be resolvd.
-- 
JD Runyan


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- "I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never
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