Hello all, posting this because I thought I was being clever, but I'm obviously missing something.
I REALLY like the proxy server @ aoproxy.extropia.co.uk, but I occasionally find an a.org link that goes to the main site. Thinking I was being clever, I resolved the IP address (208.69.36.132), and entered it into the Database->hosts settings in Miami, under the name of amiga.org, thinking this will re-route all the amiga.org links to the proxy. Though now, it results in an apache page of some sort.
I was wondering if a) Am I messing something up, and B) is what I'm attempting even possible? Thanks for any help.
It'd be correct to call aoproxy.extropia.co.uk a proxy server, but it'd be confusing. A proxy server in the context of web browsing is more commonly a server which handles your GET requests for your browser. This is a proxy server, but it doesn't take your GET requests to amiga.org, fetch the content, then provide it to you. It does the latter two without any direct connection between your browser's GET and amiga.org.
What's happened is that your lookup failed. 208.69.36.132 is neither an amiga.org nor an aoproxy.extropia.co.uk IP address. Its PTR resolves to hit-nxdomain.opendns.com. I assume you're using OpenDNS and they're doing hijacking. When you try to look up an address which doesn't exist, they don't return a failure; instead they return an address which opens in your browser as an OpenDNS search page. This hijacking is BAD and I recommend you turn it off if you can, but that's another issue altogether.
Instead, use this address:
host aoproxy.extropia.co.uk
aoproxy.extropia.co.uk has address 83.223.99.47
Note that you won't be able to go to the real amiga.org if you do that unless you add a host entry for amiga.org but use
http://www.amiga.org to visit the main site.
One other issue is that aoproxy.extropia.co.uk must have a virtualhost matching entry for amiga.org (which I doubt they do). They might do this if you ask since others might do something similar to what you're trying to do. In the meanwhile, you'll probably see the cPanel default screen (it seems they're using a plain, faceless hosting provider).
