[Sussex] 3 IP usage

[Neil Ford]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:21:21 -0000, Andrew Guard wrote:
> I don't get this, I know this is windows issue but do any of you have any
> idea why this is needed.  I will post the e-mail I got as an reply.
>  
>  
> its needed for IIS to function on multiple sites.
>  
> Nick
> 
As Geoff says, it's using one IP per site rather than using virtual 
hosts. This is quite common with IIS based sites.

One way around it is to use apache as a proxy server and have that 
forward requests to the IIS server. Keeps your IIS server directly off 
the net which has to be a bonus.

Neil.
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