[162582] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 and HTTPS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (joel jaeggli)
Fri Apr 26 00:20:16 2013
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:19:54 -0700
From: joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <29592519.4046.1366939492949.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
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On 4/25/13 6:24 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> Ok, here's a stupid question[1], which I'd know the answer to if I ran bigger
> networks:
>
> Does anyone know how much IPv4 space is allocated *specifically* to cater
> to the fact that HTTPS requires a dedicated IP per DNS name?
It doesn't, or doesn't if if your clients are not stuck in the past.
TLS SNI has existed for a rather long time.
> Is that a statistically significant percentage of all the IPs in use?
>
> Wasn't there something going on to make HTTPS IP muxable? How's that coming?
there are stuborn legacy hosts.
> How fast could it be deployed?
you can use it now.
> Cheers,
> -- jra
>
> [1] Ok, five questions.
