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@de.easynet.net] Sent: 08 May 2000 17:37 To: Nurani Nimpuno Cc: lir-wg@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