[thelist] Illegal domain name on an intranet?

[Jeff Wilhelm]

VERY easy to do.

In the internal DNS just add whatever TLD you want, and add a host pointing
to your web server. Then, have the web server listed for that host header.

Easy to do in Apache, IIS and others.


----Original Message----
From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org
[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of
Dominick Cancilla Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:24 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org Subject: [thelist] Illegal
domain name on an intranet? 

> I don't run a server so I haven't a clue about this, but
> is it possible to set up an intranet so that it will
> serve a domain with an illegal domain name? For example,
> x.net? I assume the answer is no, but I hope to find out
> I'm wrong.    
> 
> I'm asking because I'm a communications consultant and we
> have a client who would like to run an in-company
> benefits program using an extremely short domain name and
> it would be cool if we could get around the
> three-letter-prefix barrier.    
> 
> Thanks much!
> 
> --Dominick
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