Atif,
Fortunately, I am at a University with 2 class B's reserved for IP's. I can
take whatever I want whenever I want to, and that is probably the reason I
didn't even consider IP cost and availability, and how it would affect the
situation. This solution works well in our case, but may not be suitable
for commercial applications.
-John
Atif Ghaffar wrote:
> "John C. Amodeo" wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > A while back when this whole discussion about virtual domains started,
> > one of the temporary solutions was to change the Cyrus code base to
> ..
> ..
> ..
> > - IP addresses to spare... (You will need 1 address for each virtual
> > server)
>
> IP addresses are getting more and more scarce and difficult to get.
> A solution that does not require a separate IP address per domain name
> will be more suitable.
>
> It is also getting more difficult to get IP address assigned by
> authorities without providing a very good reason.
>
> So for a company that is doing "virtual domain" hosting of mail and web
> etc it is not very practicle to use multiple ip addresses.
>
> Maybe infuture we will have http 1.1 style host headers for IMAP/POP/FTP
> etc to solve this issue when IP addresses are not left :)
>
> just my 01 cents.
>
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