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Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting
From: Bennett Todd <bet () rahul net>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 08:28:39 -0400
2000-08-30-04:01:32 Peter van Dijk:
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:43:08PM -0400, Bennett Todd wrote: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.Theoretically, you could do the same with ftp as with pop3 - use usernames like 'user () domain com'.
That doesn't help the perceived need among folks who insist on supporting ftp; if they are selling a website www.naughtybits.dom then they want to have a related ftp server ftp.naughtybits.dom. As there's no way for the ftp server to tell which hostname the client used to reach the IP addr, name virtual hosting doesn't make this possible. The big difference between pop (where logging in with name () example dom works fine for name virtual hosting) and ftp is that pop is a private service, where some folks like to use ftp as a public service without authentication. I'd still put little weight on folks advocating and encouraging the use ftp, but the same point can [sadly] be made much more effectively with https. IP virtual hosts are where it's at for the time being. -Bennett
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- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Steve Sobol (Aug 31)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Patrick Evans (Aug 31)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting John Fraizer (Aug 29)
- RE: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Joseph McDonald (Aug 29)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Bennett Todd (Aug 29)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Andrew McNamara (Aug 29)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Peter van Dijk (Aug 30)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Peter van Dijk (Aug 30)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting sigma (Aug 30)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Joe Shaw (Aug 30)
- RE: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Joseph McDonald (Aug 29)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Bennett Todd (Aug 30)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson (Aug 30)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Joe Shaw (Aug 30)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Shawn McMahon (Aug 30)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Masataka Ohta (Aug 30)
- RE: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Joe Shaw (Aug 30)
- RE: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Jason Slagle (Aug 30)
- RE: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Edward S. Marshall (Aug 31)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Andrew Brown (Aug 31)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Peter van Dijk (Aug 31)
- Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting Jeff Mcadams (Aug 31)