Re: [cobalt-users] IP vs Name Based Hosting

[Dennis <dennis@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:08 AM 4/2/00 -0400, you wrote:
>OK, I appreciate all the info regarding access to name based sites before
>domain propogation, but my 'main concern' seems to have been missed so far.
>
>Last I knew, the major search engines use HTTP/1.0 spiders.  If you connect
>to port 80 of any name based site and do the standard GET / HTTP/1.0, you
>receive the content of the first site within the listing of name based
>hosts.  This is exactly what the above mentioned spiders will see, not the
>intended content of the name based site.
>
>I'm doing my own research now, but I'd like to hear any and all comments on
>the topic.

"Domain propagation" is not an issue. When someone requests the IP of a
name based host, the IP address is returned. The http header contains the
name of host being accessed, so the http server uses the header info to
determine which host to access with the current session.  The virtual name
is no different than an alias on any other address.

Domain issues are the same, ie no different than moving or adding a domain
to a dedicated address.

We have a bandwidth managerment product that controls name virtual
hosts...so I've been there....

Dennis
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