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From: Alexei Kosut <akosut@organic.com>
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Subject: Re: security holes and other fun stuff
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On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Ben Laurie wrote:

> Whilst we're on the subject of virtual hosts, something has been nagging at me.
> The other day, we set up a server running on 127.0.0.1. Then we wanted to
> extend it to 127.0.0.2 (we were doing some experiments), so the trainee
> Webmaster set up two virtual hosts:
> 
> <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
> stuff
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> <VirtualHost 127.0.0.2>
> stuff
> </VirtualHost>
> 
> This caused Apache to crash. Commenting out the first pair of VirtualHosts
> sorted it out. It would be neat if this worked, IMHO. Certainly it shouldn't
> crash.

I've never tried 127.0.0.2, but 127.0.0.1 has never crashed on me; always
seems to work fine.

-- Alexei Kosut <akosut@organic.com>            The Apache HTTP Server 
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