ietf-nntp Virtual hosts in NNTP servers

Ade Lovett ade at lovett.com
Sat Mar 1 23:28:34 PST 2003


On 03/01/03 23:03, "Joao Prado Maia" <jpm at papercut.org> wrote:
> Then Outlook Express will basically just create a news account for server
> 'servername.org' with the title 'servername.org:4444'. That's basically
> how I got into trying to run both servers in port 119 and getting into the
> obvious conclusion that it wouldn't be possible.

So, let me see if I got this straight.  You want to go through the whole
pain of virtual hosts a la HTTP, purely because of one hugely broken client
that doesn't respect the full form of the news: URI?

-aDe




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