Is this legal? (hosting's hidden subdomains)

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Is this legal? (hosting's hidden subdomains)

edwardbc

2:42 pm on Aug 23, 2007 (gmt 0)

Hello...

I've been using Hostony to host some friend's sites I manage. It has been more than 18 months and I found a hidden website in all of my domains...

mail.example.net
mail.example.com

And so on... I even made a reverse IP lookup on the server and I found that all of the customer's domains have the same issue.

So, I contacted technical support and their answer was to PAY for an unique IP to have this removed.

What do you think?

[edited by: encyclo at 1:38 pm (utc) on Sep. 3, 2007]
[edit reason] no specifics please [/edit]

bakedjake

2:43 pm on Aug 23, 2007 (gmt 0)

It sounds like they're just auto-provisioning mail A and MX records when you sign up.

edwardbc

2:50 pm on Aug 23, 2007 (gmt 0)

That's what I thought, but even in that case... is it truth that the only solution is to place my sites in their own IP to avoid this?

LifeinAsia

3:25 pm on Aug 23, 2007 (gmt 0)

Besides the issue that posting URLs here is against the Charter...

Does your host provide web access to e-mail? If so, that's probably the subdomain used to access it, and it makes sense that all the subdomains would resolve to the same IP.

Oh, and welcome to WebmasterWorld. :)