From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jun 4 00:34:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA18046 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 00:34:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA17989 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 00:34:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA07373; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 08:33:47 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Message-ID: <35764DDB.197D7470@tdx.co.uk> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 08:33:47 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roger Marquis CC: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: apache/freebsd limits on vhost servers References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Roger Marquis wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Leif Neland wrote: > > You can run all vhosts off the same ip; you don't need separate ip's. > > You can but it's not necessarily a good idea. All sorts of things can > corrupt a virtual server based on domain names only (as opposed to a > virtual server based on IP addresses) including various browsers, DNS > problems, dropped packets, relative references ... > > If you must use virtual domains mapped to a single IP at least be sure > to check the error logs. Any problems should be readily apparent. > > Roger Marquis Hmmm... 'Corrupt'? - We use them here, and we've never seen anything corrupt... Nor have we had any problems with relative addresses etc. We make sure that the default server for the IP has a nice page explaining how to get to the domains if your browser doesn't support HTTP 1.1... I think it also explains why we chose this method (to save precious address space on our network)... I've seen sites with over 300 servers running this way - that's saving 299 IP addresses! Regards, Karl Pielorz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message