[Cialug] Faking DNS

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:48 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 May 2010, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
>
> > Hi, if you need simple testing you can use telnet.
> >
> > $ telnet 11.22.33.44 80
> > GET / HTTP/1.1
> > Host: www.my-fake-site.com
> >
> Thanks for the suggestioh, but these are name-based hosts, ... simply
> telnetting to the IP is the same as using the IP in a browser - it gets
> the first site configured on the server [which is another issue entirely
> - making sure the 'Site is not on this server' message is the first in
> line <G>!].
>
>
>

Nope.

Name-based hosts work off the Host http header. You can telnet to the IP but
then you have to enter the Host: header after the GET request.

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