From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 20 8:13:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from chuggalug.clues.com (chuggalug.clues.com [194.217.82.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66C571BBAF for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 08:13:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com) Received: (from geoffb@localhost) by chuggalug.clues.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA75071; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:13:08 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from geoffb) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:13:08 +0100 From: Geoff Buckingham To: Nick Hilliard Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Class C hack instead of ifconfig aliases Message-ID: <19991020161308.A75038@chuggalug.clues.com> References: <199910201002.LAA12741@beckett.earlsfort.iol.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199910201002.LAA12741@beckett.earlsfort.iol.ie>; from Nick Hilliard on Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 11:02:08AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 11:02:08AM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: > > 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. > The patch refered to elsewhere comes from Demon Internet where it was (at least in my time) used to two /18s and a /16 without problems, this would have been completely impractical through more conventional means. As I continue to work with large scale virtual hosting set ups I would quite like to see this enter the main source tree, allthough I guess people likely to make use of it are a very small minority. In an effort to avoid what may follow, I fully appreciate HTTP 1.1 vhosting is much more appropriate in many situations, this does not however remove the need for large scale conventional virtual hosting alltogether. -- GeoffB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message