[113796] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jo Rhett)
Tue Apr 21 19:41:58 2009
From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
To: Ken A <ka@pacific.net>
In-Reply-To: <49EE5520.1070304@pacific.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:41:46 -0700
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 21, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Ken A wrote:
> 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.
*Shrug* I've been doing IP allocations for 14 years and that's never
been mentioned to me.
I suspect that anyone with enough traffic to need traffic shaping has
dedicated hosts or virtual servers, which get a unique IP each.
--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source
and other randomness
