[GTALUG] Spamhaus block

[James Knott]

On 02/22/2019 12:08 PM, Val Kulkov via talk wrote:
> Since HTTP 1.1, a request may contain the "Host"
> header: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Host
> which web servers can they use to serve proper content for a given
> host name. See, for
> example, http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/request_processing.html for
> information how nginx deals with multiple servers on the same IP address.
>
> For https, there is
> SNI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication

That could explain why I can connect to my cable modem config using IP
address, but not a host name & DNS.  While the login screen appears
either way, connections made via host name are not accepted with "Login
Failed"