[Catalyst] Branding - or path prefix

[Matt S Trout]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 04:00:41PM +0200, Zbyszek Lukasiak wrote:
> Branding based on hostname has the disadvantage that you need the
> hostnames.  With it you add unnecessary dependency on the DNS and DNS is
> quite complicated system. It can take weeks to refresh DNS, while you can
> change the path instantaneusly.

Bullshit. If you set the TTL low enough DNS changes are fast, and provided
nobody's accessing a hostname before it's there (in which case you're waiting
only a few minutes because DNS servers don't tend to cache failures long)
then the creation of a new hostname is instantaneous.

In any case, you can just have an entry in your zone file like

*.site.com IN A ...

and then you know you can use whatever subdomains of site.com you want ...

-- 
     Matt S Trout           Website: http://www.shadowcatsystems.co.uk
  Technical Director        E-mail:  mst (at) shadowcatsystems.co.uk
Shadowcat Systems Ltd.