On 2003.01.03, Peter M. Jansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Apparently in the latest version, nsvhr and nsunix work
> out-of-the-box, although confirmation of this is sketchy.

Indeed, they should work out-of-the-box on 3.5.x, and I can personally
attest to it, but nobody else has spoken up saying they're using it.

Is anyone out there using nsvhr/nsunix out there?  Anyone?

> If you want to use the reverse-proxy approach, you're probably best
> using TCP connections (it's not clear there are performance advantages
> from using Unix domain sockets, as far as I know).

As you said, the performance advantages aren't really big: if you do
things right, you'll bind the virtual server's socket to localhost (your
loopback interface) so opening/tearing down sockets isn't too terribly
slow.

The only advantage of running nsvhr with nsunix is that with nsunix we
do FD passing, which gives the virtual server access to the actual
client's socket -- which includes their peer address.  Doing
reverse-proxy with nssock, you only see the IP address of your
reverse-proxy in your nslog ... with nsunix, you see the IP address of
the actual requesting client.  This is important to some people, me
included.

-- Dossy

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Dossy Shiobara                       mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Panoptic Computer Network             web: http://www.panoptic.com/
  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
    folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)

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