testing local virtual hosts before making a DNS change

[Marcus Brubaker]

Madison Kelly wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>   I am building a new server to replace an aging old one. This server
> has numerous domains and actually come from several machines. Because of
> this I want to test as much as I can to make sure the migration worked.
> The problem I am having at the moment is with how to test domains in an
> Apache (2.x) virtual host contained without making DNS changes.
>
>   I though I could just add something like:
>
> www.domain.com    111.222.33.44        # The new IP
>
>   To my '/etc/hosts' file expecting it to have the highest priority in
> name resolution. For various reasons this server is already running a
> live DNS server that is a slave to the NS with SOA on all the domains so
> I can't simply drop in my own DNS server to override the name
> resolution. (I know this isn't optimal but it made the most sense, all
> things concidered).
>
>   So my question then is; How can I test apache (and later mail) for
> domains currently on another IP?


Adding those lines on a test client machine and making sure that the 
"hosts:" line in /etc/nsswitch.conf has files before dns should work 
fine.  Hope this helps.

Regards,
Marcus
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml