[10068] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: multihoming without BGP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Fri Jun 13 13:05:03 1997
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 13 Jun 1997 09:25:23 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 09:51:10 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
> I had to jump in here with a correction and clarification. We are using
> Netscape Enterprise Server 2.0. The 'software virtual server' feature
> doesn't work with any version of Netscape Navigator up to and including
> Communicator Preview 5. The server sees a HTTP 1.0 not HTTP 1.1 request.
Getting a Host: keyword as part of a request is really a protocol violation
if the browser said HTTP/1.0 rather than HTTP/1.1. But all browsers do this,
except Lynx, and any reasonable web server (Apache and Squid, for examples)
will let you switch web roots based on the Host: keyword, regardless of HTTP
versioning. It's possible that all you have to do is switch web servers and
your need to burn address space will evaporate immediately.
