On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 20:12 +0530, Abhishek Dixit wrote: > Very correct.But I see people given root access in these situations > also and other than websites people are given a lot of server access > with dedicated IPs and SSH access so how do they acquire so many > IPs.Are these web hosting companies responsible for the finishing of > IPv4 addresses.
I think you'll find that companies that give you a "Virtual Private Server", or VPS, where your website sits behind the same public IP as many others will be a bit different than a dedicated real/virtual host. If it really isn't a shared hosting situation where everybody is under the same webserver, then everybody is probably behind a massive vhosting proxy. In this situation, either the provider won't give you ssh root access, or, if they do, they'll use an ssh bounce proxy like you described originally. I've never seen it, but they could also proxy your ssh connection based on the destination port, so you could do ssh -P 22001 mydomain.com and it would find its way to your server. Again, I've never seen this in reality, but it would work. IPv4 exhaustion is real, but there is currently no simple plan to make everybody move to IPv6, so for the time being.. we all just have to deal with these little hacks. -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
