How do I stop people pointing their domain name at my IP?

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Hi,
Bizarrely someone has registered a domain name and is pointing it at my ip
address.
How can I stop it showing my website on their domain name?
My server is win2k/iis5
Thanks
JJ
 
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JJ said:
Hi,
Bizarrely someone has registered a domain name and is pointing it at
my ip address.
How can I stop it showing my website on their domain name?
My server is win2k/iis5
Thanks
JJ
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Are you saying that someone created a new domain name, created a www entry,
and gave it your IIS server's IP address? Interesting. You can stop that by
creating a specific hostheader for your own domain name so it will not
respond if another domain name is in the HTTP header.

But if they are doing a redirect to your domain name, that is a tough one to
stop. If that is the case, you maybe able to create some code in your
webpage that tells it to not accept referrals.


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JJ> How can I stop it showing my website on their domain name?

By configuring your content HTTP server, whatever it is, appropriately.
This is not a DNS issue.
 
You have no control over somebody else's DNS. Period.

You can control what content you serve up when an HTTP request (or other
request) hits you though.
 
Point made - Thanks!

Lee

DevilsPGD said:
You have no control over somebody else's DNS. Period.

You can control what content you serve up when an HTTP request (or other
request) hits you though.
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JJ> How can I stop it showing my website on their domain name?

JdeBP> By configuring your content HTTP server, whatever it is,
JdeBP> appropriately. This is not a DNS issue.

L> Why do you say it's not a dns issue?

For the obvious reason that it isn't. It has nothing to do with DNS
service. I've already said what it *does* have to do with.
 
MF> But if they are doing a redirect to your domain name, that is a tough
MF> one to stop. If that is the case, you maybe able to create some code
MF> in your webpage that tells it to not accept referrals.

With some content HTTP server softwares that, too, is a server
configuration issue, not a web page content issue. Apache, for example,
can be configured with access controls that look at the "Referer:"
header. (Not that I endorse this idea, mind you.)

<URL:http://httpd.apache.org./docs/misc/FAQ-G.html#image-theft>
 
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Lee said:
Point made - Thanks!

Lee
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One of my web customers had a similar issue, others were referring links on
their pages to my customer's site to grab multimedia content, driving up
bandwidth consumption. They wound up creating a PHP script to check if the
incoming request to check the HTTP header to see if it was a direct request
or a referral from another site. If a referral, it blocked the connection.

Ace
 
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