Re: [tpop3d-discuss]virtual hosting: /etc/hosts mapping or inverse name resolution??? please help

[PhilG]

Arrr. I understand now.

I will consider changing usernames to a ful address@hidden ..

Thanks for all your help everyone.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Lightfoot" <address@hidden>
To: "PhilG" <address@hidden>
Cc: <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: [tpop3d-discuss]virtual hosting: /etc/hosts mapping or inverse
name resolution??? please help


> On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:49:23PM +1200, PhilG wrote:
> > Yeah, without a problem I can get it to work with a different IP address
for
> > each host name but I have a many domains on the server which are on the
same
> > IP... This must be common for virtual hosters.
> >
> > Is there no way to do this?
>
> No.
>
> How is tpop3d supposed to know which domain the user
> wants? Remember that the only information it has about the
> connection are the source and destination IP addresses and
> ports. This isn't enough to obtain the domain name from.
>
> POP-3 isn't like HTTP/1.1: the client doesn't (by default)
> send the hostname it thinks it's connecting to to the
> server. The closest you can get is to ask your users to
> append @domain to their usernames.
>
> -- 
> ``A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in
>   human history -- with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.''
>   (Mitch Ratcliffe, in `Technology Review', 1992)
>
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