<p>Suppose that you've assigned 192.0.2.1 to
<code>www.example1.dom</code> and 192.0.2.2 to
<code>www.example2.dom</code>. Furthermore, suppose that
- <code>example2.dom</code> has control of their own DNS. With this
- config you have put <code>example2.dom</code> into a position where
- they can steal all traffic destined to <code>example1.dom</code>. To
- do so, all they have to do is set <code>www.example2.dom</code> to
- 192.0.2.1. Since they control their own DNS you can't stop them
- from pointing the <code>www.example2.dom</code> record wherever they
+ <code>example1.dom</code> has control of their own DNS. With this
+ config you have put <code>example1.dom</code> into a position where
+ they can steal all traffic destined to <code>example2.dom</code>. To
+ do so, all they have to do is set <code>www.example1.dom</code> to
+ 192.0.2.2. Since they control their own DNS you can't stop them
+ from pointing the <code>www.example1.dom</code> record wherever they
wish.</p>
- <p>Requests coming in to 192.0.2.1 (including all those where
+ <p>Requests coming in to 192.0.2.2 (including all those where
users typed in URLs of the form
- <code>http://www.example1.dom/whatever</code>) will all be served by
- the <code>example2.dom</code> virtual host. To better understand why
+ <code>http://www.example2.dom/whatever</code>) will all be served by
+ the <code>example1.dom</code> virtual host. To better understand why
this happens requires a more in-depth discussion of how httpd
matches up incoming requests with the virtual host that will
serve it. A rough document describing this <a