Nathan,
Thank you. This helps. I do use IBM's Edge server to spread out an inbound request to redundant targets. We do not use this by name. Your explanation does help.
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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 12:09 PM
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Subject: Re: Why adulterate ports vs using an additional IP address? Was: Ports IP specific?
Some shops front-end their web servers with one that is configured as a "reverse proxy", which is listening on ports 80 and 443, which then reroutes requests based on a name prefix, so that:
x1.mycompany.com routes to say port 9001, x2.mycompany.com routes to say port 9002, x3.mycompany.com routes to say port 9003,
etc.
They may lease only one public IP address from their ISP, and pay for only one wildcard certificate, and still be able to support many independent web sites. Web hosting providers may do this. Encryption is only configured on the reverse-proxy instance, as opposed to configuring encryption on many web servers.
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