Greg,
given you speak of name-based virtual hosts, your concerns do not apply.
You'd not be affected if the IP of one of your web servers would be
listed in an URIB list..The plugin does not resolve the IP of an URL.
The only thing that matters is the actual domain. The case in question
here is special only in that there is only the IP given as a type of
surrogate domain name.
Dirk
wolfgang schrieb:
In an older episode (Thursday, 11. August 2005 22:58), Greg Allen wrote:
This is a very, very dangerous road to go down. You would see a lot of
collateral damage by doing a URIBL by IP. A lot of domain hosts these days
use shared IPs. I could host any number of legit websites on one virtual
IP…and I do. I share IPs with any number of other websites at the web
hosting companies where I have websites. There is nothing wrong with this
practice. It is common place on the Internet and is very cost efective. I
don't want other people's spam baggage thank you. It would be much better
to stick with URIBLs by name and let RBLs do the IP lookups like we
already do.
Good point, thanks! I hadn't thought of that.
cheers,
wolfgang
