[HCoop-Help] DNS Problems with hcoop.net subdomain

[Adam Chlipala]

Nathan Weston wrote:
> 1) www.cfoboard.hcoop.net works, but cfoboard.hcoop.net doesn't
> (although it used to)
>    

Your configuration doesn't ask for any mapping for "cfoboard.hcoop.net" 
to be added.  Why are you using the "domain" configuration directive 
instead of "dom"?  I think you should come up with the results you want 
if you just follow the examples here, where I've tried to stress that 
folks should almost never use "domain":
     http://wiki.hcoop.net/DomTool/Examples

(It's quite possible that our documentation is out of sync, and 
something on our wiki suggested using "domain."  If so, it would be 
useful for us to know where that is.)

> 2) The domain seems to come and go from DNS. Some days I can resolve it,
> and other days I can't.
>    

Our secondary DNS server wasn't updating because a daemon had lost AFS 
tokens about a month ago, but no one noticed until now.  It should be 
working again now; I'll leave it up to the admins to figure out a 
permanent fix for this problem on outpost.hcoop.net.

> If I do "nslookup www.cfoboard.hcoop.net ns1.hcoop.net" it does work:
>
> Server:		ns1.hcoop.net
> Address:	69.90.123.67#53
>
> Name:	www.cfoboard.hcoop.net
> Address: 69.90.123.68
>
> But visiting this IP address in a browser just takes me to the hcoop.net
> front page.
>    

You shouldn't expect anything else.  All non-SSL virtual hosts share the 
same IP address.  If your web browser isn't requesting a particular 
hostname, then there's no way our web server could know which vhost you 
want.