Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 11:38:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: Glen Foster <gfoster@gfoster.com> Cc: robert@chalmers.com.au, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtual domains? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.94.960722113226.13120A-100000@scooter.quickweb.com> In-Reply-To: <199607221102.HAA05277@tbd.gfoster.com>
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On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, Glen Foster wrote: > Yes. This has traditionally been accomplished by assigning multiple > IP addresses to an interface, something that FreeBSD has been able to > do for some time (since 1.1.5?). Web servers can be configured to > return different page heirarchies depending on the address at which > they were addressed. 'man ifconfig' to find out how.. (ex. ifconfig ep0 alias 199.111.111.111 adds this IP number to the interface) > > This may not be as important a feature any more as the latest Apache > release (1.1.1) no longer needs it to support virtual hosts, see > http://www.apache.org/, and other web servers (are there any? :-) will > undoubtedly adopt similar functionality. > "Software Virtual Servers" are part of the http/1.1 standard (proposed), and were first implememted by the Netscape servers. One thing to remember with these "non-ip based" virtual servers is that to date, only Netscape Navigator sends the required HEADER to let the web server know the NAME of the domain it's after. So if most of your hits are coming from Nav. 2.0 or higher, it's safe to use Software Virtual Servers. If you have a lot of hits from places like AOL or Compuserve, however, it would be a bad idea to implement either Netscape's or Apache's new virtual domain method. Hopefully all browsers will start supporting http/1.1 soon and we can free up the 1/2 million or so IP numbers stupidly tied up doing multi-domain web serving... -Mark ------------------------------------------- | Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com | | C-Soft www.quickweb.com | ------------------------------------------- "To iterate is human, to recurse divine." - L. Peter Deutsch > Glen Foster <gfoster@gfoster.com> > > >From: robert@chalmers.com.au (Robert Chalmers) > >Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 17:37:02 +1000 (EST) > > > >Does FreeBSD do virtual domains? like BSDI or SCO.5 and a few others. > >If so, how so? > >Virtual domains, Virtual servers I've heard the process called both. >
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