Re: multihoming without BGP

I had to jump in here with a correction and clarification. We are using Netscape Enterprise Server 2.0. The 'software virtual server' feature doesn't work with any version of Netscape Navigator up to and including Communicator Preview 5. The server sees a HTTP 1.0 not HTTP 1.1 request.

Getting a Host: keyword as part of a request is really a protocol violation if the browser said HTTP/1.0 rather than HTTP/1.1. But all browsers do this, except Lynx, and any reasonable web server (Apache and Squid, for examples) will let you switch web roots based on the Host: keyword, regardless of HTTP versioning. It's possible that all you have to do is switch web servers and your need to burn address space will evaporate immediately.