On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote:
The big difference between pop (where logging in with name@example.dom works fine for name virtual hosting) and ftp is that pop is a private service, where some folks like to use ftp as a public service without authentication.
I'd still put little weight on folks advocating and encouraging the use ftp, but the same point can [sadly] be made much more effectively with https. IP virtual hosts are where it's at for the time being.
And lets not forget traffic accounting as well. ;-)
I think I remember Top Layer saying they dig deep enough into the packet payload that they can still do flow accounting on name-based transactions. However, I may be totally wrong on that. Cisco netflow is a different story. __ Joseph W. Shaw - jshaw@insync.net