Here's an example of a request header. The IP and host name are in the request header. This is a Bingbot request. For a ban I usually only use the IP.
2019-02-11:00:03:53 URL: /wp/tag/fire-code/ IP: 157.55.39.xxx Accept: */* Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Cache-Control: no-cache Connection: Keep-Alive From: bingbot(at)microsoft.com Host: ewxample.com Pragma: no-cache User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; + http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) X-Https: 1 On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 at 11:32, Giles Orr via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 at 11:12, James Knott via talk <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 02/22/2019 11:00 AM, Don Tai wrote: >> > A host will have a number of IPs, a box is on a specific IP, there >> > will be a number of web sites on the same box, many domain names >> > pointing to the same IP. For example my sites are on a box with 25 >> > different sites that I know of, all pointing to the same IP. If one of >> > them causes a ban on the IP then all sites are affected/banned. >> >> If each server has the same IP, how are they differentiated? The only >> ways I know are to use non standard port numbers or extend the host name >> with a suffix after a /. >> > > A single instance of Apache or Nginx (and probably most other HTTP > servers) can handle multiple names on one port at one IP address. We use > this ability a fair bit at my work: the web server determines what name > you're looking for from the incoming header, looks at its own config to > find out where on the box that website is stored, and responds with the > proper information. The most obvious implementation of this is hosting > sites who have used this ability for around 20 years. > > Presumably similar things can be done with most other incoming services, > although I'm most familiar with the behaviour of web servers. > > -- > Giles > https://www.gilesorr.com/ > [email protected] > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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