On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:06:33PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > >Isn't this common to have multiple aliases at an interface? > >Sometimes only one of them should be used for all DNS traffic. > > About the only common reason to set up multiple aliases on an > interface is when you're doing something like hosting multiple SSL > webservers on a single box which actually need to have distinct IPs as > a consequence. Other than that, using public IPs for aliases is > usually wasteful of IP address space. YMMV...
Think about multiple IP-based services (not HTTP "virtual" servers) at one physical host that should use distinct IP addresses for some reasons (local policy/billing/monitoring/etc.) Eugene Grosbein _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
