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Originally Posted by jca111
I was thinking the exact same thing. This is very common and perfectly legitimate practice. Hosting companies could not work without host header resolution, as they would run out of IP Addresses in no time flat. Unless the whole world moves over to IPv6 it would be impossible for all websites to have unique IP addresses.
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They could be on separate servers, as they could be on a network behind the firewall. Something at firewall/router level would just be looking at the Host Header and routing it to the various different physical servers. But to the user/client - they all appear as one IP. This is all OK tho.
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Yes, the F5's and Cisco ACE modules perform exactly this type of thing (if I recall correctly, I'm not a network bod) but it would be transparent to the end user.