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ddfrench · #**361** (**permalink**) 06-27-2008, 02:53 AM

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Originally Posted by deepsand

Here's an experiment you can perform that will illustrate the situation at hand.

Of IBM's many IP Addresses, one is 129.42.56.216; enter this IP Address into your browser's address bar, hit Enter or Go, and you will get the default page IBM United States .

Got it.

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Originally Posted by deepsand

If another Domains Name's Name Server points to 129.42.56.216, anyone going to www.that-other-domain-name.ext will get that IBM page.

In this case yes. However, on a shared server, some default message would be issued; either an error message or an ad or some other customized page.

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Originally Posted by deepsand

However, IBM does not have any resource at http://129.42.56.216/my-webproblog , which you can see by clicking on the preceding link, which will yield a Custom 404 error.

And, so will www.that-other-domain-name.ext/my-webproblog, as such is actually trying to access 129.42.56.216/my-webproblog .

Correct

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Originally Posted by deepsand

The Domain Name is, via the Name Server, translated into an IP Address; any parameters following the Domain Name are then appended to that IP Address.

If the hostserver at that IP Address has a resource that matches that requested, it will serve it up. And, as the default page require no parameters, a bare IP Address will yield that default page on that IP Addresses's hostserver.

OK, now I just ran a test on my own static IP address. Unfortunately, there is only one domain at that static IP address. In my test, a request to that IP address returned the default page of my domain. My browser showed http://my.IP.address/ in the address bar.

Can the problem be summarized as numerous unrelated domains with incorrect DNS records pointing to a server with Alan's home page as the default for that IP address? Is the problem caused by the hosting company's incorrect server settings?

I appreciate your explanations because many of us put in a lot of time following this thread, and it would be a pity if we could not come away with a concrete understanding of the problems.