Access website by IP

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?

Try just the tcp/ip address without the websitename e.g.,
http://123.123.123.123.
"etre" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> 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?
>
>

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 09:38:25 +0100, "etre" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>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?

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

"etre" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> 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?
>
>