Seeing website before DNS kicks in...

on IIS w/ shared IP

[Sanenet]

OK - so I have a webserver, with several sites sharing the same IP.

Is there anyway I can see a site before the DNS kicks in? Webserver is IIS5 on Win2000. Couldn't think of a way but if any clever bod knows of one....

[rogerd]

Commercial webhosts often set up a subdomain to redirect to the site so that the site is immediately accessible, e.g., "yourdomain.example.com", where traffic to the subdomain is directed to the folder where your site is located.

[Sanenet]

Yeah, but it's my own webserver. Was just wondering if there was a quick n easy way to do this to show a client their site before the DNS changed.

[encyclo]

You can just add the IP address/domain mane to the hosts file on the client's computer:

123.456.789.012

www.example.com

Type in the domain name, and the hosts file is checked before doing a DNS lookup.

[Sanenet]

D'oh!

Thanks very much encyclo!