server_name within tcp server blocks

[Charles Nnamdi Akalugwu]

Thanks a lot for the clarification guys! :)



On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 7:46 PM, itpp2012 <nginx-forum at nginx.us> wrote:

> Richard Stanway Wrote:
> -------------------------------------------------------
> > TCP has no concept of server names, so this is not possible. It only
> > works
> > in HTTP because the client sends the hostname it is trying to access
> > as
>
> To put into better wording,
> The 'hostname' technique has 2 parts, part 1 is a receiver (nginx)
> receiving
> a request containing a hostname which it can match (or not) to an item in
> its configuration, and part 2 the DNS name where this name is recorded
> against its IP address. With stream{} you can only rely on part 2.
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum:
> https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,263208,263219#msg-263219
>
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