North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 3:44 PM > > On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 [email protected] wrote: > ARIN's site says: > > Where security is a concern, name-based hosting is capable of > supporting the transmission of sensitive materials > with some servers. > Unless something's changed recently, SSL still requires IP > based virtual > hosting. Here's a clipping from the c2.net Stronghold FAQ: > > Should I use name-based or IP-based virtual hosts? > > Name-based virtual hosts do not work with SSL because > certificates are > sent before server names are established. Secure virtual > hosts must be > either IP-based or port-based. IP-based virtual hosts are more > convenient, as users would have to remember the port numbers for > port-based virtual hosts. In addition, neither OpenSSL nor mod_ssl work with named-based virtual hosts. All vHosts have to share the same cert whereas IP-based hosts don't. Someone at ARIN is hallucinating, if they think that their statement is true. As a side note, MS-IIS doesn't do it any more successfully than Apache/OpenSSL even v5.5 under Win2K, I run both. It sounds more like ARIN wants to shut down web-hosting companies or prevent them from doing SSL. The only other way to read this is that someone at ARIN is incompetent. Frankly, I'd like to know which.
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