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RE: Web server DNS name
Ah thanks Phil - I messed the post from Pete about the reverse proxy bit -
I'll explore that a bit further.
Paul.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Dye [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 23 March 2005 09:01
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Web server DNS name
>
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> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:09:23 -0000, Paul Gale <groups@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > What I want to do is type 'telephone' into IE's address bar and
have it
> load the correct page. At the moment I have to type 192.168.0.2:52340
or
> servername.domain:52340.
> >
> > I think I need to add a DNS entry and use host headers on IIS
maybe??? I
> don't understand the host headers bit though.
>
> You can't do this through DNS alone; browsers assume port 80 for HTTP,
> and there's no way of representing an alternative in DNS (well, not
> 'normal' DNS anyway).
>
> Previous suggestions of a reverse-proxy, shortcut, etc are all valid
> and should work fine though.
>
> --
> phil
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