Wildcard hosting with Apache and Bind

Monday, August 8th, 2011 125 views

If you have control over your DNS you can setup ‘wildcard hosting’, which means you can have a webserver accept connections for any given subdomain. This can be enormously useful for community websites, or other hosting purposes. One popular site which uses this technique is Livejournal, another less obvious one is Slashdot.org. The end goal [...]

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How to integrate DHCP and DNS

Saturday, March 21st, 2009 141 views
How to integrate DHCP and DNS

One of the best aspects of Microsoft in general is how they seamlessly link their services. A classic case in point is the way Microsoft integrate DHCP and DNS. In fact, the ability of DHCP to update DNS records is what transforms static NT 4.0 DNS, into dynamic 2003 DNS. This link provides huge administrative [...]

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