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Date:      Mon, 17 Feb 1997 11:14:43 -0800
From:      Chris Bura <chris@main.Netcorps.com>
To:        batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie)
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Apache Virtual Servers (single IP) 
Message-ID:  <199702171914.LAA07955@main.netcorps.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:02:04 PST." <m0vwXO8-0008zjC@agora.rdrop.com> 

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Are many ISPs doing this?

It seems to make sence.  Cut's down on ifconfigs, DNS, scarcity of IP 
addresses.

What are the drawbacks?

Chris


> > I believe there is a way to have this run all on a single IP address,
> > instead of using a heap of IP Alias settings.
> > 
> > How is this done?
> 
> You just assign the same IP address to all the names.
> 
> BUT --- it only works with HTTP 1.1 browsers, which admittedly is a large
> chunk of them, but not all.  The rest will get the default server because
> http 1.0 doesn't pass the expected server name along.
> 
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