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From: Karl Wiebe <karl@dnai.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Virtual Host Problems
Date: 23 Jul 1996 10:15:29 GMT
Organization: DNAI ( Direct Network Access )
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geosh@erinet.com (Geosh Fathauer) wrote:
>Running a proxy and a web server on the same station with virtual
>domains needs the alias on the loopback defined; at least
>in my humble experience I've found this to be the case.
Well, it is a perfectly valid way to do Virtual Hosting on BSD-derived
systems ( if they have ifconfig alias ). I prefer it to aliasing using
Ethernet cards ( which is more common ). I have an instinctive dislike
of proxy-ARPing, and using lo devices avoids this.
I have 3 Class Cs worth of IPs used as virtual domains using this
technique right now ( 762 IPs ) on one machine.
>J Wunsch (j@ida.interface-business.de) wrote:
>: Stan Golob <sgolob@peacenet.com> wrote:
>
>: > This is what I have done:
>: >
>: > Added the ifconfig lo0 alias `ipaddress`
>
>: Are you sure that you want an alias for the loopback device?
--Karl
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== Karl Wiebe == karl@dnai.com ==
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