Re: multiple IP addresses for moodle site config file problem

by Francesco Meago.  

Hi all,

thanks for sharing your thoughts, foolish is good they say,

yes the setup is basically like Ken explained again (firewall in the middle with many NICs, two routers, two public IPs, two separate ISPs, one internal network with the moodle server), and the server is actually reachable at the same time from the two different ISPs (no need to wait any switching time). The whole thing works pretty well, trust me.

I know what DNS is and I dont like in this case DDNS or DNS failover solutions. No-ip.com was blocked for an entire week last year and also I would like to use the school's domain name. DNS failover would be ok but it's yet another third party service... Let me say it again, I just wanted to tell you that being able to have more that one hostname could be handy to me. Sending students an email saying to use hostname2 would be totally doable in case an ISP goes down for a day or a router burns on a bank holiday. No shame, no issue, and also totally in line with ISP's service level agreements, specially in the middle of the Alps where we live..

Let's please concentrate on moodle and not on my setup. Let's be explicit if this single hostname design limitation is a technical limitation, a security choice, or whatever else. I have many non-moodle webservers responding from multiple hostnames without a glitch and definitely I'm not the only one... I cannot see a problem with this. Can I have the same with moodle? Is there something I need to disable or that I can do within the configuration of the actual moodle server? I think this is what people looking at these threads would like to know or are trying to find workarounds on. If it is not possible... let's just be explicit, accept it as a design limitation, possibly give some references, mention the possible workarounds, accepting that somebody may have a use in having more than one hostname for a single site. Saying that it is useless or not the way to do, is simply not an answer. It may not be a moodle big issue, but it is a moodle limitation that not every webserver has.

kind regards, Francesco