[thelist] IIS5: combining to boxen into one.
Hassan Schroeder
hassan at webtuitive.com
Tue Oct 8 17:18:00 CDT 2002
Chris W. Parker wrote:
> www.siteA.com has an internal IP address of 10.0.0.5 and...
> www.siteB.com has an internal IP address of 10.0.0.3.
>
> what i was told to do (which for some reason didn't work [i blame that
> on user error and not bad instruction]) was to follow these steps...
>
> 1. shutdown www.siteA.com 's box.
> 2. add www.siteA.com 's IP address to the Network Properties of the NIC
> on www.siteB.com (i imagine that this of course would cause any traffic
> for 10.0.0.5 and 10.0.0.3 to be directed to the same NIC.)
> 3. open IIS and add two host headers to the properties of www.siteB.com
> 3a. www.siteB.com
> 3b. siteB.com
> 4. voila. you're done. it should work.
>
> but it doesn't. anything i'm doing wrong? or not waiting long enough? or
> should i reboot? i mean, i'm using win2k and they don't usually have a
> problem with changing IP addresses even while operating. but maybe this
> is different?
I'd think you would have to reboot for this one, but it's easy to
check.
If you've shut down box A, ping its internal address; if you don't
get a response, reboot box B :-)
FWIW!
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