[Tfug] subdomains

[Gregory Gray]

I think of it like this ( And this may be an
oversimplification but close to the RFC's )

Any URL boils down to 

HOST.DOMAIN.TLD

Where TLD is the top level domain you're classified
under ( a highly political and $$$$ motivated
stratification I might add ) ie. .com .org .edu .us
.tv add infinitum add naseum.

DOMAIN is the "subdomain" of the TLD which you have
contracted the rights to from your registrar for a
noteworthy but not critical investment per year.....

Considering the history of the question.... you
probably already knew this and the foregoing has been
simply rhetorical.

Lastly.... the HOST part is any "subdomain" you want
to create under the DOMAIN part above. Usually this
refers to any particular web exposed machine in the
DOMAIN. It might be www: your web server or mail: your
mail server or even owned: the name the hackers gave
your machine when they took it so they could add DNS
entries on there DNS servers so they could reference
your machine on the boards as owned.isp.com

In theory you could extend this forever ( I think )
with the proper DNS entries for example
www.newbie.multilevelmarketingscam.domainsearchengine.isp.net

In short.... it's a wild world so watch your back but
I hope this helps.

regards,

greg

usulix@yahoo.com

--- klsmith <ksmith@dakotacom.net> wrote:
> I'm confused.  What does one call it when:
> 
>  - You have a main site - www.mysite.com which is
> the documentroot
> /web/www.mysite.com/
> 
> - you want tucson.mysite.com which is documentroot
> /web/www.mysite.com/tucson/
> 
> I know the apache docs make it appear that a
> subdomain is a virtual host,
> However I've always understood a subdomain to be a
> name added to the front
> of your domain inplace of www.
> 
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
> 
>
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> Keith Smith
> (520) 358-2138
> http://www.AKScomputers.com
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeffrey Denton" <dentonj@c2i2.com>
> To: <tfug@tfug.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 7:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tfug] subdomains
> 
> 
> > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, klsmith wrote:
> >
> > > <VirtualDomain hobby.mysite.com.
> 123.123.123.123>
> > >     DocumentRoot /web/mysite.com/hobby/
> > > </VirtualDomain>
> >
> > There is usually more than one way to do things,
> but the following works:
> >
> >
> > <VirtualHost 169.244.19.3>
> >         ServerAdmin  dentonj@closeedge.net
> >         DocumentRoot /some/dir/web
> >         ServerName dentonj.closeedge.net
> >         <Directory "/some/dir/web">
> >                 Options Indexes IncludesNoExec
> >                 AllowOverride none
> >                 Order allow,deny
> >                 Allow from all
> >         </Directory>
> > </VirtualHost>
> >
> > The named.conf entry for the above contains:
> >
> > zone "closeedge.net" in {
> >         type master;
> >         file "pz/closeedge.net";
> > };
> >
> >
> > The file pz/closeedge.net contains:
> >
> > dentonj         A       169.244.19.3
> >
> >
> > There are other things in the above files, I just
> included the important
> stuff.
> >
> > dentonj
> >
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