How would I share ports between my IIS applications?

Someone asked on Server Fault:

By request of our network administrator, I would like to do so unless someone could give me a strong argument against it.

  • What should i watch out for?

I posted the following answer, which was chosen as the accepted answer and received 2 upvotes:

The only way to do this is by creating a unique binding. If the port and IP are the same, the host header (dns entry) must be different.

I am unaware of any downsides to this approach. Especially if you do not have enough IPs to service every application you need to run.


Originally posted on Server Fault — 2 upvotes (accepted answer). Licensed under CC BY-SA.

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