Yeah - makes sense. The local machines arent a problem as we can add them to the hosts file on the local machine, its the dev box ones that are the issue. I had a feeling that this wouldnt be possible.....
On 3/16/07, Haikal Saadh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Like you say, you don't really have control over your client's domain > names, so you'd need something rooted at the local level... > > So if I was you, I'd set it up thus: > > *.localdev.tunaranch.net : 127.0.0.1. That way, all subdomains of > localdev. will go to localhost. This would need virtual hosts to be set > correctly, of course. > > And then, you can set, say, > > foo-inc.clients.tunaranch.net : <IP for dev box for Foo. Inc> . > bar-co.clients.tunaranch.net : <IP for dev box for Bar Co.> . > > Makes sense? > > > > Duncan wrote: > > Scenario: > > > > Web dev shop, lots of clients, lots of domains, using an internal dev > > box, using SBS server 2003 > > > > Problem: > > > > current DNS is set up for clientname.local and points to the site on > > the central dev box > > > > we are introducing SVN and individual environments on the developers > > local machines. > > > > Ideally I would like to be able to use local.client.com for the local > > developer machine, dev.client.com for the dev box etc. > > > > Clearly we don't have control over the clients DNS so we cant create > > these on their domain (and I wouldn't want to as 2 of them would be > > useless to external folks). > > > > So I want to create a couple of entries for an external domain name, > > that are available only to our network and have the external entries > > still work without us having to maintain a second copy of them (this > > appears to be the only solution in SBS DNS). > > > > Can we do this? How do y'all cope with this? Do I need to look at a > > different naming schema? > > > > > > -- > Haikal Saadh > Applications Programmer > ICT Resources, TALSS > QUT Kelvin Grove > > > > > -- Duncan I Loxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
