What is the use case that requires http://test.10.0.0.3.xip.io/test-page rather than http://10.0.0.3/test-page ? I've been using the latter on iphones and ipads with no problem.
Honest question.
Xip.io - a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address
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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 This address will only be reachable from…
What is the difference between an alias and a static IP address? Also don't most routers attempt to give IPs back to the MAC that last had them?
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#13What is the use case that requires http://test.10.0.0.3.xip.io/test-page rather than http://10.0.0.3/test-page ? I've been using the latter on iphones and ipads with no problem. Honest question.
This would support multiple vhosts.
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#14What is the use case that requires http://test.10.0.0.3.xip.io/test-page rather than http://10.0.0.3/test-page ? I've been using the latter on iphones and ipads with no problem. Honest question.
You can't test multiple sites on the same host using just the IP.
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Well, if you don't : https://github.com/sstephenson/xipd
We have no proof that the code on the repo is related in any way to the code the actual site is running.
You're right. I'm probably just running xip.io to steal all your sensitive development-mode form data!
Re: Xip.io - a magic domain name that provides wildcard DNS for any IP address
#17For those who missed the other announcement, Pow 0.4.0 has xip.io support built-in: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3191-announcing-pow-040-with-...
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#18I wish one of the localhost-to-web projects like showoff.io or localtunnel would allow wildcard hostnames like this.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 This address will only be reachable from…
What is the difference between an alias and a static IP address? Also don't most routers attempt to give IPs back to the MAC that last had them?
What is the difference between an alias and a static IP address?
Not sure what you mean. If you're referring to the bit about binding MAC to an address, I should probably have said "fixed IP" rather than "static IP", sorry about that.
Also don't most routers attempt to give IPs back to the MAC that last had them?
I'm hopping between different networks (with different DHCP servers) quite a lot, maybe it's less useful when you're always on the same network.