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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: configuring virtual ftp (wu-ftp)
Date: 14 Apr 1996 23:58:08 GMT
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Peter Schwenk <pschwenk@crooow.wcupa.edu> writes:
>Forgive my ignorance, but, what is virtual ftp?

The same as virtual WWW: one server serves foo.com, bar.com,
foobar.edu, ...

This is usually achieved by IP-aliasing one interface to different IP
addresses.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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