Access website by IP

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We have several websites hosted on the one server. We normally access them
by entering into our web browser, for example, http://websitename.xxx.co.uk.

Unfortunately our DNS server is down and I can't access them using addresses
like this. Is there any way I can access the websites using only the IP
address or the server name?

I can do it with one of our websites which is accessed through a virtual
directory on a web server which only hosts one site e.g.
http://123.123.123.123/websitename, but unfortunately I can't access the
websites which require a subdomain before they can be resolved.

Any ideas?
 
We have several websites hosted on the one server. We normally access them
by entering into our web browser, for example, http://websitename.xxx.co.uk.

Unfortunately our DNS server is down and I can't access them using addresses
like this. Is there any way I can access the websites using only the IP
address or the server name?

I can do it with one of our websites which is accessed through a virtual
directory on a web server which only hosts one site e.g.
http://123.123.123.123/websitename, but unfortunately I can't access the
websites which require a subdomain before they can be resolved.

Any ideas?
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If your sites are using host headers, then you can't access them by IP
address alone. You should have redundant DNS servers for just this
reason.

Jeff
 
You could use a hosts file on the clients.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
 
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