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Multiple Web servers on 1 IP?

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by cthomas at johnsonlumber.

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I was trying to figure out how I can get several web addresses or mail servers operating from one IP address. I was thinking that I would need a DNS server set up, but I'm using a cable modem with a router attached to it. I have been trying to figure this out, but I'm still scratching my head over it.

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by jordana

What OS are you running? Just assign multiple IP's to your nic. Of course you will need to have DNS entries somewhere that point to those IP's.
Need more info. What OS, what web server?

Jordan

by cthomas at johnsonlumber.

Im running IIS 4 on NT4. I only have one IP address to my house, and I was wondering how i go about setting it up like that. What I was wondering how to do is this: have one IP address and host a webserver and a mail server both on it. Like www.site.com and mail.site.com. Each would be a seperate server running each app. I was thinking I could run a DNS server on it as well, and have that route traffic accordingly. My main thing is having only 1 public IP address, and having multiple servers onit. I can put as many servers on the IP address as I want due to the nature of the LAN I have, but I am limited to the 1 IP.

by jordana

You can do this. You need to setup DNS, and then assign a host to the ip, say dns.site.com. Then you assign alias's to the ip, say www1.site.com, www2.site.com.
Then, in the IIS admin console use the host header option for each website you create.

Jordan

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