Re: How to get IP Address of a remote host
On Jul 24, 9:42 pm, Mark Space <marksp...@sbc.global.net> wrote:
gimme_this_gimme_t...@yahoo.com wrote:
The owner of somesite.com has production and development versions of
dahdahdah - and the one you connect to should be determined by your
local hosts file.
This sounds like the worst idea imaginable. You hard code the server
name, and then edit the hosts file? Why not just supply the host name
as a parameter or in a config file? At worst, if it has no name, just
supply the IP address instead of the name.
Because that would imply planning ahead.
I'm reasonably sure that when the site was created it only had a
single, production version. Later, someone sane came along and said
"hey, let's not do our dev on the live site." Either that, or some
developer figured that since he didn't mind modifying his own /etc/
hosts, and was smart enough not to forget to undo his changes later,
nobody else would mind either and everyone else would be as smart.
We're fighting with this at $DAYJOB on a somewhat epic scale; because
of recent changes to the URL structure of our site, we now have a set
of scripts that assumes you have the www.YOURNAMEHERE.dev.example.com
name ( in /etc/hosts and goes to a content switch and DNS server and
creates foo.YOURNAMEHERE.example.com, bar.YOURNAMEHERE.example.com,
etc and sets up the appropriate rules in the content switch -- but it
all still relies on you modifying your hosts file first.
Not that I'm bitter and grumpy.
-o