IPv6 and HTTPS

Fri Apr 26 04:19:54 UTC 2013

On 4/25/13 6:24 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> Ok, here's a stupid question[1], which I'd know the answer to if I ran bigger
> networks:
>
> Does anyone know how much IPv4 space is allocated *specifically* to cater
> to the fact that HTTPS requires a dedicated IP per DNS name?
It doesn't, or doesn't if if your clients are not stuck in the past.

TLS SNI has existed for a rather long time.
> Is that a statistically significant percentage of all the IPs in use?
>
> Wasn't there something going on to make HTTPS IP muxable?  How's that coming?
there are stuborn legacy hosts.
> How fast could it be deployed?
you can use it now.
> Cheers,
> -- jra
>
> [1] Ok, five questions.