RE: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting

["Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer () MHSC com>]

> From: jlewis () lewis org [mailto:jlewis () lewis org]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 3:44 PM
>
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 sigma () pair com 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.