Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:24:38PM -0400, Ricky Beam wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:40:30 -0400, Chris Adams <cmadams () hiwaay net> wrote:
> > SSL and FTP are techincal justifications for an IP per site.
>
> No they aren't.  SSL will work just fine as a name-based virtual host with  
> any modern webserver / browser. (Server Name Indication (SNI) [RFC3546,  
> sec 3.1])
>
> FTP?  Who uses FTP these days?  Certainly not consumers.  Even Cisco  
> pushes almost everything via a webserver. (they still have ftp servers,  
> they just don't put much on them these days.)

        well, pretty much anyone who has large datasets to move around.
        that default 64k buffer in the openssl libs pretty much sucks
        rocks for large data flows. 

--bill