[30758] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Shaw)
Wed Aug 30 12:17:15 2000
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:14:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>
To: Joseph McDonald <joe@vpop.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Joseph McDonald wrote:
> > Name-based virtual hosting does not work in many, MANY cases. Beyond
>
> And it doesn't work for POP3 at all. If you give your customers their
> own pop3 server, you will need to bind to a different IP for each customer.
> I don't know of any way around that.
> Same goes for ftp as far as I know.
It has been argued by people far smarter than I that FTP needs to
disappear, and I tend to agree with them. Not that I think that file
transfers should no longer take place, but FTP has certainly outlived it's
usefulness in today's networks and should be replaced with something a bit
more robust/secure. I think SCP is certainly a start in the right
direction. With a few modifications, it could certainly be an adequate
drop-in replacement.
--
Joseph W. Shaw - jshaw@insync.net
