Simon Willison 1/23/2026

SSH has no Host header

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The article details the technical mechanism behind exe.dev, a hosting service that provides multiple VMs via SSH. It explains how the service routes SSH connections to the correct user VM despite not assigning unique IPs per VM, leveraging shared IPs and identifying the user account via SSH public key authentication at the load balancer.

SSH has no Host header

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