IP assignment for virtual webhosting

But surely www.big-importantco.com would have their own machine and wouldn't
share with www.my-little-home-page.org ?

We try to apply the rule that you should only have unique addresses for ssl
servers that can't do IP-less or some other server protocol that can't
support it. Many of our customers grumble at first but soon realise that
they can add their own IP-less virtuals without need to involve our admin
department. All that's needed is a little DNS and the whole job can be
completed in a day!

My two pence

Cheers

Matthew

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Kiessling [mailto:Robert.Kiessling at de.easynet.net]
Sent: 08 May 2000 17:37
To: Nurani Nimpuno
Cc: lir-wg at ripe.net
Subject: IP assignment for virtual webhosting


Nurani Nimpuno writes:
 > We would 
 > therefore like to request the community to consider making it 
 > mandatory for NEW installations to use domain based web-hosting, with 
 > the exception of a set of agreed applications needing IP based 
 > web-hosting (eg. SSL).

So you would require servers like www.siemens.de to share an IP
address with www.my-completely-unimportant-personal-site.de if there
is no SSL or similar use?

I would suggest to make exceptions for heavily used sites, too. Since
the vast mayority of webservers does not fall into this category, this
is no waste of address space.

Robert