On 1/2/2013 9:16 PM, Steve Cookson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Wallace Winfrey <wwinf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I can still get to the site if I put 81.173.110.10 directly in my >> hosts file, but this obviously not a long-term solution, nor one that is of >> use to anybody not on this mailing list. > So if I type 81.173.110.10 into my browser I get: > > "This IP address is shared. For access to the web site which you look > for, enter its address instead of its IP. > For questions or problems please contact the server administrator." > > How do I get past that? > > Regards > > Steve > If you type it into the browser, your browser is asking the server for something from that naked IP address, and the server doesn't know what to give it, because several sites are served from that IP based on the server *name* in the browser.
If you place the name into the hosts file, your browser will send that when requesting the URL from that IP, and the server knows which site to return. This is effectively what DNS is doing invisibly; you can just hardwire the process locally for your own machine. Michael
