Xip.io - a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address
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Re: Xip.io - a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address
#2Nice hack.
Of course reverse dns doesn't work :-) I suppose it kinda sorta could if you tracked where a request came from and what IP you sent it and if you got a reverse lookup you could undo that, but still it is clever!
Re: Xip.io - a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address
#3I hope people trust 37signals.
Re: Xip.io - a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address
#4Hmm... Why wouldn't I just type the IP in?
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Re: Xip.io - a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address
#6Hmm... Why wouldn't I just type the IP in?
Because then you can only serve one site from that address.
With this you could serve as many different sites as you want based on the first part of the domain name.
Re: Xip.io - a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address
#7I hope people trust 37signals.
Well, if you don't :
https://github.com/sstephenson/xipd
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#8Re: Xip.io - a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address
#9looks very useful
Re: Xip.io - a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address
#10Hmm... Why wouldn't I just type the IP in?
Because then you can only serve one site from that address. With this you could serve as many different sites as you want based on the first part of the domain name.
To expand on this, this problem can usually be solved by editing /etc/hosts. But you can't do that on some platforms such as iOS.
By the way, a neat trick is to assign an alias to your network interface in order to avoid the trouble of DHCP giving you a different IP address each time you connect. For example, on Mac OS X:
$ sudo ifconfig en1 alias 10.99.99.99 netmask 255.0.0.0
(Obviously you want to be sure you're using a vacant address.)
(And of course, when you have control over the DHCP server there are more elegant ways of achieving this, such as binding your MAC to a static IP address.)
Edited for clarity.