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Subject: Re: Class C hack instead of ifconfig aliases
In-Reply-To: <199910201002.LAA12741@beckett.earlsfort.iol.ie> from Nick Hilliard at "Oct 20, 1999 11:02:08 am"
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> > What do you mean by "bind a class C"?  Make an interface so it will
> > respond to incoming requests for 10.1.2.x?  ewww, yuck!
> 
> Is it any less elegant than having in_localaddr() trawling through each item
> on the address list?  Perhaps 1024 items if you've got a large vweb server? 
> That's also pretty inelegant.
> 
> I seem to remember someone producing some patches for this on bsdi a couple
> of years ago.
> 

I think somebody sent patches to do it a while back. I think it might be
in GNATS.

John
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John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za


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