Trouble with creating subdomains for .local address

I'm a web developer on Mac OS X 10.5.6 and I use my MacBook Pro as my primary development and testing machine. I have Apache 2 running and Entropy PHP 5.2.4. All of that works fine. In the past, I didn't use virtual hosts. Instead, I would divide my projects into subfolders of /Library/WebServer/Documents
One day, I wised up and created virtual hosts by adding the appropriate entries to /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf and by adding a few corresponding hostnames to /etc/hosts.
In the hosts files, I "created" subdomains for each site. For example: If I was working on a site for Dairy Queen, I might add the following line to /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 dq.local
Then I would add the virtual host to /etc/apache2/extra/http-vhosts.conf and it would look something like the following:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot "/Library/WebServer/DairyQueen/Documents"
ServerName dq.local
<Directory "/Library/WebServer/DairyQueen/Documents">
Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
I've been setup in the above way for many months and it all works great. On my computer, I can enter dq.local in my browser and it pops right up.
I've even modified the hosts file in my Parallels Virtual machines running Windows. And from any browser in any of my Virtual machines, I can reach my various .local domains hosted by Mac OS X.
*The Problem:* If I want to browse the site from another computer on my local network (or my iPhone), they will not find my MacBook Pro in the .local domain without editing the /etc/hosts files on those devices -- which is a nightmare scenario because A) I can easily edit the /etc/hosts file on the iPhone, B) It's inconvenient to have to edit /etc/hosts files on the myriad of devices, and C) I would have to have my laptop set to a static IP -- something I could easily accomplish, but it's just not as clean of a solution as I'm looking for.
I realized that when using Bonjour, my MacBook Pro shows up to other computers as "Christophers-MacBook-Pro.local". I thought, hmmm ... maybe I could utilize that by dividing it into subdomains. For example, I would modify the vhosts file setting the new domain name to dq.christophers-macbook-pro.local, I would modify my own /etc/hosts file to say:
127.0.0.1 dc.christophers-macbook-pro.local
... and Voila! I'd be done, right? Nope!
Of course on the MacBook Pro that's hosting the sites, I can browse to dq.christophers-macbook-pro.local, and it works fine just like it did when it was dq.local.
On a PowerBook G4 (running a freshly installed and clean 10.5.6), going to dq.christophers-macbook-pro.local results in the wrong site from coming up. What!?
Note that when I go to just "christophers-macbook-pro.local" on the iPhone and the PowerBook, the correct site comes up -- from the MacBook Pro.
Turns out, my xServe running Leopard Server is responding to the request and serving up my photo gallery site on both the PowerBook and the iPhone!
I do have DNS running on the server. The other computers are connected wirelessly and via DHCP from an Airport Extreme Base Station that IS NOT getting DNS from the server, rather it's getting DNS from Comcast. The notbooks and the iPhone are getting DNS from the Base Station.
When I stop the DNS service on my xServe, there's no effect -- the web response is still coming from the server. (Yes, I flushed the DNS cache on the PowerBook just to be sure). I checked the virtual hosts on the server and none of them is configured with a wildcard as an alias. The photo site IS the first entry in the sites list -- the first virtual host.
So, how do I break my MacBook Pro's .local domain into subdomains? What am I missing?

HI,
That's about 6 miles over my head but I can suggest that you post in the Apple Mac OS Technologies forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=162
Carolyn

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Second, beware that a java source file can, and often does, generate more than one class file. Ignore any class files whose names contain a $ character. It's possible you are loading an internal class which doesn't extend your abstract class.

GWIA doing DNS lookup for local address

Hello,
I am running GW8.0.2 on Netware 6.5sp8. I have a server that our recreation department uses to send out confirmation emails when a customer signs up for a class. The recreation server and the GWIA are on the same subnet.
Here's the problem: When the Rec server sends out the first email confirmation, it gets sent out successfully. Subsequent emails after that fail. After about twenty minutes the next email will go out OK again but subsequent emails will fail.
The verbose logs on the GWIA don't tell me much but the diagnostic logs show what looks like a reverse DNS lookup happening at the GWIA for my local IP address of 10.0.0.3 (the Rec server). This reverse DNS lookup fails (probably a timeout) and subsequent emails from this local Rec server get dropped by the GWIA without the DNS lookup.
DNS is being done by DNS proxy on Bordermanager 9.2. I've bypassed the Bordermanager DNS and the same thing happens. I've made entries for the local Rec server into a route.cfg file but the GWIA seems to want to ignore these entries and keeps doing the DNS lookup.
The wierdest part of the puzzle is that if I restart the proxy on the Bordermanager the next email will go out with, of course, subsequent emails failing. I've looked at the proxy dns cache and can't even find an entry for my Rec server.
Attached are the entries from the Diagnostic logs of the GWIA. Novell tech support has assured me that the GWIA and the BM are working fine. I am also having this problem with a scanner that scans then emails but all other email and Bordermanager are functioning fine. This server and scanner were not having this problem before upgrading to GW8.0.2.
I don't understand why GWIA is doing DNS lookups for a local address and I don't know what I can do to stop it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This is a successful transfer right after restarting the proxy: 10.0.0.3 is the Rec server, 10.0.0.130 is the GWIA and 10.0.0.1 is the Bordermanager.
16:04:13 D15 NgwResQuery(3.0.0.10.in-addr.arpa, 1, 12)
16:04:13 D15 Querying server (# 1) address = 10.0.0.1
16:04:13 D15 HEADER:
16:04:13 D15 opcode = QUERY, id = 17615, rcode = SERVFAIL, flags: qr aa rd
16:04:13 D15 query = 1, answer = 0, authority = 0, additional = 0
16:04:13 D15
16:04:13 D15 QUESTIONS:
16:04:13 D15 3.0.0.10.in-addr.arpa, type = PTR, class = IN
16:04:13 D15
16:04:13 D15 rcode = 2, ancount=0
16:04:13 D15 NgwResQuery failed
16:04:13 D15 DMN: MSG 2000909 Accepted connection: [10.0.0.3] ()
16:04:13 D15 Successful login with client/server access: 10.0.0.130:1677
16:04:13 D15 DMN: MSG 2000909 Receiving file: ECMAIL/SYS:\PROGRAMS\GRPWISE\WPGATE\GWIA\3RD\receive\df30 fad4.221
16:04:13 D15 DMN: MSG 2000909 SMTP session ended: [10.0.0.3] ()
This is an unsuccessful transfer:
16:06:08 D04 timeout
16:06:08 D04 NgwResQuery: send error
16:06:08 D04 NgwResQuery failed
16:06:08 D04 DMN: MSG 2000933 Accepted connection: [10.0.0.3] ()
16:06:08 D04 DMN: MSG 2000933 SMTP session ended: [10.0.0.3] ()
Then the successful email comes back into the system:
16:06:26 AA8 MSG 2000909 Processing inbound message: ECMAIL/SYS:\PROGRAMS\GRPWISE\WPGATE\GWIA\receive\DF30FAD4 .221
16:06:26 AA8 MSG 2000909 Sender: [email protected]
16:06:26 AA8 MSG 2000909 Recipient: [email protected]
16:06:26 AA8 MSG 2000909 Queuing to MTA
16:06:26 AA8 MSG 2000909 File: ECMAIL/SYS:\PROGRAMS\GRPWISE\WPGATE\GWIA\wpcsin\4\4daf048 2.8m1 Message Id: (4DAF66F2.B67:244:35687) Size: 163.3 Kb

Thanks Massimo. I could have swore I already did that but when I did it again just to make sure it solved the problem. Appreciate the help. Have a good one.
Originally Posted by mrosen
On 02.05.2011 21:06, avanrav wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am running GW8.0.2 on Netware 6.5sp8. I have a server that our
> recreation department uses to send out confirmation emails when a
> customer signs up for a class. The recreation server and the GWIA are on
> the same subnet.
>
> Here's the problem: When the Rec server sends out the first email
> confirmation, it gets sent out successfully. Subsequent emails after
> that fail. After about twenty minutes the next email will go out OK
> again but subsequent emails will fail.
>
> The verbose logs on the GWIA don't tell me much but the diagnostic logs
> show what looks like a reverse DNS lookup happening at the GWIA for my
> local IP address of 10.0.0.3 (the Rec server). This reverse DNS lookup
> fails (probably a timeout) and subsequent emails from this local Rec
> server get dropped by the GWIA without the DNS lookup.
>
> DNS is being done by DNS proxy on Bordermanager 9.2. I've bypassed the
> Bordermanager DNS and the same thing happens. I've made entries for the
> local Rec server into a route.cfg file but the GWIA seems to want to
> ignore these entries and keeps doing the DNS lookup.
>
> The wierdest part of the puzzle is that if I restart the proxy on the
> Bordermanager the next email will go out with, of course, subsequent
> emails failing. I've looked at the proxy dns cache and can't even find
> an entry for my Rec server.
The reverse DNS done by GWIA is normal, and can't be stopped or tricked.
That it fails in such odd ways must be a bug with the reverse DNS proxy
of Bordermanager though. Apparently on the second lookups, it doesn't
answer in a timely manner (the type of answer is irrelevant, just it
*has* to answer). Use a different, "real" DNS server for your GWIA.
CU,
Massimo Rosen
Novell Product Support Forum Sysop
No emails please!
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