<p>Suppose that you've assigned 10.0.0.1 to
<code>www.abc.dom</code> and 10.0.0.2 to
<code>www.def.dom</code>. Furthermore, suppose that
- <code>def.com</code> has control of their own DNS. With this
- config you have put <code>def.com</code> into a position where
- they can steal all traffic destined to <code>abc.com</code>. To
+ <code>def.dom</code> has control of their own DNS. With this
+ config you have put <code>def.dom</code> into a position where
+ they can steal all traffic destined to <code>abc.dom</code>. To
do so, all they have to do is set <code>www.def.dom</code> to
10.0.0.1. Since they control their own DNS you can't stop them
- from pointing the <code>www.def.com</code> record wherever they
+ from pointing the <code>www.def.dom</code> record wherever they
wish.</p>
<p>Requests coming in to 10.0.0.1 (including all those where
users typed in URLs of the form
<code>http://www.abc.dom/whatever</code>) will all be served by
- the <code>def.com</code> virtual host. To better understand why
+ the <code>def.dom</code> virtual host. To better understand why
this happens requires a more in-depth discussion of how Apache
matches up incoming requests with the virtual host that will
serve it. A rough document describing this <a href="vhosts/details.html">is available</a>.</p>
<p>Suppose that you've assigned 10.0.0.1 to
<code>www.abc.dom</code> and 10.0.0.2 to
<code>www.def.dom</code>. Furthermore, suppose that
- <code>def.com</code> has control of their own DNS. With this
- config you have put <code>def.com</code> into a position where
- they can steal all traffic destined to <code>abc.com</code>. To
+ <code>def.dom</code> has control of their own DNS. With this
+ config you have put <code>def.dom</code> into a position where
+ they can steal all traffic destined to <code>abc.dom</code>. To
do so, all they have to do is set <code>www.def.dom</code> to
10.0.0.1. Since they control their own DNS you can't stop them
- from pointing the <code>www.def.com</code> record wherever they
+ from pointing the <code>www.def.dom</code> record wherever they
wish.</p>
<p>Requests coming in to 10.0.0.1 (including all those where
users typed in URLs of the form
<code>http://www.abc.dom/whatever</code>) will all be served by
- the <code>def.com</code> virtual host. To better understand why
+ the <code>def.dom</code> virtual host. To better understand why
this happens requires a more in-depth discussion of how Apache
matches up incoming requests with the virtual host that will
serve it. A rough document describing this <a
been deployed widely enough to be put into use on critical
webservers.</p>
</section>
-</manualpage>
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+</manualpage>