[TriLUG] Multiple IP address per interface?

[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney]

On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 21:39, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> You can't because of SSL?  Why not?  I do.

Read the mod_ssl docs. The upshot is, in ordr to do multiple-host https,
each server needs it's own key. The key is determined by the hostname.
The hostname isn't given until *AFTER* the connection is established.

So, you need the key to establish the connection, but you don't know
what key to use for that hostname until after the connection is
established. Chicken-egg. So in order to use >1 hostname with mod_ssl
(and a key per each) each https host needs it's own IP.

Make sense?

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