Well, Happy Birthday...
But to answer your query...
VSDproxy (which unfortunately will not be included in the release tomorrow
because it still uses the old style certificate handling) is intended to
provide a secure and manageable gateway to a farm of VSD servers (hosting
servers or virtual servers). This is useful because it provides a single
point of authentication behind which the overhead of SSL can be removed and
also provides a point at which to impose any access policies an ISP may
require. It works by only accepting SSL authenticated connections, and using
the information within the supplied certificate (the common name) to
indicate the VSD server to which the request is directed. Because all
requests made by a client application are directed to the VSDproxy and
seamlessly forwarded this makes the VSDproxy appear to the client like a
hosting server with many hundreds of virtual servers upon it. Behind the
VSDproxy the actual physical location of a virtual server is irrelevant. A
virtual server can be migrated between different hosting machines and
requests will continue to be forwarded to it without a client application
having to be made aware of any changes. Hopefully, this will give the ISP
greater flexibility to utilise hardware resources and will provide a secure
framework to support web-based and native-GUI based management of VSD
servers in a production setting.
Tim
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ben Kennish
> Sent: 14 May 2001 12:28
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> Subject: FreeVSD Proxy
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>
> Hello people,
>
> I've heard that work is currently under way on a proxy for freeVSD.
> What exactly will this do?
>
> Am I correct in thinking that it'll let you administer freeVSD on
> multiple host servers as if they were one? Just hungry for info! :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
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> Ben Kennish
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> Software Engineer
> Fubra Limited
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> PS : Its my birthday today - a whole 19 years old - wow!
