From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Feb 18 06:03:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA05171 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 06:03:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.intercenter.net (mir.intercenter.net [207.211.128.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA05164 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 06:03:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 18404 invoked from network); 18 Feb 1997 14:03:50 -0000 Received: from bigboy.intercenter.net (207.211.128.17) by mir.intercenter.net with SMTP; 18 Feb 1997 14:03:50 -0000 Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:03:50 -0500 (EST) From: Ron Bickers To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apache Virtual Servers (single IP) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Michael Dillon wrote: > > Are many ISPs doing this? > > No. Only a few clueless ones. Just like the clueless ISPs that went to dynamic IP addresses for dialup customers? There were a lot of complaints about that, but it's pretty much the norm now. > Besides, IP addresses are not scarce. You have to justify your usage of > them and cannot waste them but the 3 NIC's all accept virtual webservers > as a legitimate use of IP space. Tell the Internic they aren't scarce and see what they say. I will be surprised if the Internic doesn't soon consider that you don't need to waste addresses to serve multiple domains. The Internet is moving forward, so should it's users. It won't be long before the vast majority of clients and servers use a single IP for virtual domains. It also doesn't take much to support both. Besides, if you're still using an old browser, you're going to be missing a lot more than just a Host: header. Ron