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Re: IP Allocation

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Handler)
Wed Nov 20 21:16:08 1996

Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 20:46:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Michael Handler <handler@netaxs.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0vQDfA-0007znC@rip.psg.com>

On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Randy Bush wrote:

> The use of address to differentiate between multiple web sites on one host
> was only a hack to get around a gap in the http protocol.  This too shall
> pass.

Indeed. Additionally, interested parties should also take a look at
RFC2002, the SRV DNS RR type, which can help address the HTTP/1.0
virtual domain problem, and has other ramifications as well.

-- 
Michael Handler <handler@netaxs.com>, Net Access, Network Operations

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