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From: henryc@ceylon.visinet.ca (Christian Henry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Virtual Hosts
Date: 21 Dec 1995 01:36:34 GMT
Organization: VisiNet Internet Services Inc.
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Message-ID: <4badn2$a9c@kenya.visinet.ca>
References: <4as581$4rb@news.ccs-online.com>
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In article <4as581$4rb@news.ccs-online.com>,
Tim Berdahl <berdahl@news.ccs-online.com> wrote:
>I have a web server setup which has 5 virtual hosts and it actually does work.
>However, I have two questions:
>
>1.  When ifconfig'ing the virtual hosts with the command:
>	ifconfig ed0 inet virtual_host_ip_addr alias
>    if says:
>	ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
>    Then, if I execute the same command a second time, everything seems to
>    work.

Try using the following style instead:

 ifconfig ed0 alias virtual_host_ip_addr netmask 0xffffffff

Before I tried this on our web server, I encountered the same problems you
are.
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