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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting
2000-08-29-21:25:09 Joseph McDonald: > > Name-based virtual hosting does not work in many, MANY cases. > > And it doesn't work for POP3 at all. It can. Just give your users POP logins of the form [email protected] > If you give your customers their own pop3 server, you will need to > bind to a different IP for each customer. I don't know of any way > around that. Don't give them each their own pop3 server, just give them distinct accounts per virtual domain on the same pop3 server. > Same goes for ftp as far as I know. ftp can't be name-virtual-hosted. It is also such a wretched protocol that it urgently needs to be retired in all settings for all purposes. The only real excuse I'd argue for keeping IP virtual hosts is https --- but as there's no chance of a secure replacement for HTTP that works with name virtual hosts getting deployed any time soon, and as the last legal barrier to universal deployment of https is falling in just a month, I think ARIN has picked a remarkably unfortunate time to launch this crusade. If they'd done it a couple of years ago, maybe it would have helped to nudge some of the folks who just never bothered to learn how to configure name virtual hosts into shifting a bit, and possibly this could have helped provide motivation for designing something better than the current https, like e.g. a TLS negotiation within http, and maybe we could be approaching the point where such an improved client might be widely-enough available. But now there's no helping it, IP virtual hosts are the primary webserving product for the next bit of a while anyway. -Bennett Attachment:
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