[Air-L] on the Wayback Machine (was public/private [part 1 of 2])

[elw at stderr.org]

> I have not read the full thread so please forgive me if I am repeating 
> the same information.
>
> A web crawler will find you, that's the point. There are a finite number 
> of IP addresses, 4,294,967,296 (232) , these are what get resolved from 
> a URL.

Web crawlers don't typically have much luck crawling by IP address.

Name-based virtual hosting @ the level of the web server tends to make it 
less than adequate.

Best practice for virtualhosting is to make a hit directly to an IP 
address (rather than a name) return... nothing.

--e