From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 11 01:37:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA03918 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 01:37:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from pdx1.world.net (pdx1.world.net [192.243.32.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA03908 for ; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 01:37:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from suburbia.net (suburbia.net [203.4.184.1]) by pdx1.world.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA13380; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 01:37:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (proff@localhost) by suburbia.net (8.7.4/Proff-950810) id UAA25288; Mon, 11 Nov 1996 20:37:02 +1100 From: Julian Assange Message-Id: <199611110937.UAA25288@suburbia.net> Subject: Re: virtual hosting with inetd To: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 20:37:01 +1100 (EST) Cc: proff@suburbia.net, julian@whistle.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Tom Samplonius" at Nov 11, 96 01:14:40 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > o doesn't handle hostnames > > o doesn't handle multi-homed host names > > I don't think you want this. Hostname lookups for 200 hostnames could > take a while, especially if DNS is down. Imagine long delays when no > connections are accepted while re-loading the config file. If you are the virtual server for those sites, you are very likely to be the primary name server, and if not a secondary name server and if not that, then /etc/hosts ;) > > o everything has to be in the one file. administration nightmare. > > say you are running 200 virtual servers with 4 services each ^^^^^^^^^^ > > = around 6400 xinetd lines. and grep won't work on it. > > o uses bloated multi-line-per-service xinetd config style ;) > [..] > script could go do the DNS lookups. Also, an average xinetd config entry > is not even close to 32 lines (32*200=6400), in fact I don't think it > possible to have an entry that long. 4*8*200=6400 -- "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_ +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+ |Julian Assange RSO | PO Box 2031 BARKER | Secret Analytic Guy Union | |proff@suburbia.net | VIC 3122 AUSTRALIA | finger for PGP key hash ID = | |proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu | FAX +61-3-98199066 | C7F81C2AA32D7D4E4D360A2ED2098E0D | +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+