Re: your mail

% From www-talk@www10.w3.org  Fri May  5 17:02:51 1995
% Reply-To: rst@ai.mit.edu
% 
% Alternatively, if your computer has multiple network interfaces (or
% can be configured to pretend that it does), you can assign one IP

	How can you configure a machine to pretend it has more than
	one network interface?  Do you know if there's a standard
	way to do this in UNIX?

% address to abcd.com, assign another to xyz.com, and run a server which
% behaves differently depending on which IP address is used to contact
% it.  The important thing is that the IP addresses must be distinct,
% since an HTTP client doesn't try to tell the server what it thinks the
% server's name is.
% 
% The server you use has to be aware of this arrangement as well, of
% course.  Patches are available for the NCSA server (and probably for
% CERN as well); Apache, an NCSA derivative, comes with this code
% integrated in to the main body (and we've even gotten around to
% documenting it).  See
% 
%   http://www.hyperreal.com/apache/docs/virtual-host.html
% 
% for details on how this works...
% 
% rst
% 

Thanks.
pt

Received on Friday, 5 May 1995 20:53:40 UTC