Each URL is simply another host on their primary domain, so each user gets
an A record and an IP port. If they're really being cheap, they can even
have a number of URLs pointing at a single port and have the web server(s)
figure out which site to send based on the request.
----- Original Message -----
From: Saeed Awan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 7:00 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Off Topic -- DNS Question
> Sorry for sending an off topic question, but I know that we have a lot of
> experts here on the list...
>
> I have seen that many sites offering free web sites are giving URLs like
> yourname.theirdomain.com. I was curious how are they doing that; I am
sure
> that they may have thousands of sites like that, so how do they setup DNS,
> and web server for this? Any ideas?
>
> - saeed
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