[30764] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Shaw)
Wed Aug 30 13:29:20 2000
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:22:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>
To: "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote:
> > The big difference between pop (where logging in with
> > name@example.dom works fine for name virtual hosting) and ftp is
> > that pop is a private service, where some folks like to use ftp as a
> > public service without authentication.
> >
> > I'd still put little weight on folks advocating and encouraging
> > the use ftp, but the same point can [sadly] be made much more
> > effectively with https. IP virtual hosts are where it's at for the
> > time being.
>
> And lets not forget traffic accounting as well. ;-)
I think I remember Top Layer saying they dig deep enough into the
packet payload that they can still do flow accounting on name-based
transactions. However, I may be totally wrong on that. Cisco netflow
is a different story.
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Joseph W. Shaw - jshaw@insync.net