Jeff Genender wrote: > > Greg Wilkins wrote: >>I think it is important for us not to encourage this by treating >>virtual host names as network addresssed. > > > I don't agree as the VH is still a network name, and unfortunately this > is supplied by the Tomcat folks, not us. >
If you are saying that VH's are almost always network addresses by convention - then I agree totally. But if you are saying that tomcat needs VH names that *must* be network addresses which can be resolve - then I'm very surprised. Many servers I've worked with in large ISPs are deployed in environments without any DNS at all, as they don't want to risk the lookup delays. Either way, I don't see that geronimo need to require anything of a VH other than treat it as a name which the container can interpret. If tomcat has a requirement that the VH is a resolvable name, then it will simply be a configuration error to give it a non-resolvable name. cheers
