On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:19 AM, siraj p s <siraje...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thank you Eric ...We were able to successfully implement our idea..Can this > idea be utilised for preventing ipv4 address exhaustion? > *No.* *I hate to be so blunt about it, but a standard httpd installation* will run an (virtually) unlimited number of sites from a single server (including SSL using SNI). As Eric mentioned, (unless there is something REALLY innovative, which I don't see in your original email) Apache already has what you are trying to do (frontend proxy to arbitrary backend servers) built in (mod_rewrite and the proxy flag). The reasons that a server might need more than one IP address: - SSL compatibility with older browsers that don't support SNI. - Other services that do not support virtual hosts (but that does not belong on the httpd users list).