[113794] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken A)
Tue Apr 21 19:24:17 2009
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:22:08 -0500
From: Ken A <ka@pacific.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20090421224030.GA1301601@hiwaay.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> said:
>> Since
>> virtual web hosting has no technical justification for IP space, I
>> refuse it.
>
> SSL and FTP are techincal justifications for an IP per site.
Right. Also, monthly bandwidth monitoring/shaping/capping are more
easily done using one ip per hosted domain, or ftp site, or whatever.
Otherwise you are parsing logs or using 3rd party apache modules.
It's a convenience which would not be looked at twice, if it were on
ipv6. All the more reason to move to ipv6. :-)
Ken
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Ken Anderson
Pacific Internet - http://www.pacific.net
