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    From Adam Funk@a24061@ducksburg.com to news.software.readers on Thu Nov 20 20:58:53 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.software.readers

    HTTP servers can handle multiple websites on the same IP address and
    port because the request headers include the hostname.

    Is there anything like that for NNTP, or does the server on a given IP
    address always behave exactly the same? In other words, if
    news.example.com and nntp.example.com have the same IP address, can
    the server tell which hostname the client is calling?

    Thanks.
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  • From not@not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) to news.software.readers on Fri Nov 21 07:39:51 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.software.readers

    Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> wrote:
    HTTP servers can handle multiple websites on the same IP address and
    port because the request headers include the hostname.

    Is there anything like that for NNTP, or does the server on a given IP address always behave exactly the same? In other words, if
    news.example.com and nntp.example.com have the same IP address, can
    the server tell which hostname the client is calling?

    There aren't any headers sent by the client until they post
    something to a newsgroup, and even then probably nothing useful, so
    I don't see how that could work.
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  • From Adam Funk@a24061@ducksburg.com to news.software.readers on Mon Nov 24 10:11:33 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.software.readers

    On 2025-11-20, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

    Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> wrote:
    HTTP servers can handle multiple websites on the same IP address and
    port because the request headers include the hostname.

    Is there anything like that for NNTP, or does the server on a given IP
    address always behave exactly the same? In other words, if
    news.example.com and nntp.example.com have the same IP address, can
    the server tell which hostname the client is calling?

    There aren't any headers sent by the client until they post
    something to a newsgroup, and even then probably nothing useful, so
    I don't see how that could work.

    That's what I thought --- thanks.
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