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Re: customers and web servers and level one naps

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Gaudet)
Fri Sep 6 22:13:44 1996

To: nanog@merit.edu
From: dgaudet@hotwired.com (Dean Gaudet)
Date: 7 Sep 1996 02:01:36 GMT

In article <hot.mailing-lists.nanog-199609051951.PAA08990@netaxs.com>,
Avi Freedman  <freedman@netaxs.com> wrote:
>The bigger problem (the one I was thinking about)  would be someone putting 
>a host on 192.41.177.x or 192.157.69.x or 198.32.136.x or ...

With something like cisco's Local Director you could quite easily serve
a whole web farm out of a single IP.  Well, at least when HTTP/1.1 style
Host: or full-url GET type requests become more prevalent, otherwise
you'd be stuck with a single virtual host.  Technically it's a router :)

Dean

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