From: Eric Covener <covener@apache.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 14:22:54 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: PR64996: avoid "best" unqualified
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PR64996: avoid "best" unqualified


git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1884608 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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diff --git a/docs/manual/vhosts/name-based.xml b/docs/manual/vhosts/name-based.xml
index 4f0ede6487e..93f15e62697 100644
--- a/docs/manual/vhosts/name-based.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/vhosts/name-based.xml
@@ -54,8 +54,9 @@
     applicable to a general-purpose web server.</p>
 
     <p> Name-based virtual hosting builds off of the IP-based virtual host
-    selection algorithm, meaning that searches for the proper server name
-    occur only between virtual hosts that have the best IP-based address.</p>
+    selection algorithm, meaning that comparisons of ther requested hostname
+    to configured hostnames occurs only within the set of virtual hosts that 
+    share the most specific IP:PORT based match at the network layer.</p>
 
 </section>
 
@@ -64,7 +65,7 @@
     <p>It is important to recognize that the first step in name-based virtual
     host resolution is IP-based resolution.  Name-based virtual host
     resolution only chooses the most appropriate name-based virtual host
-    after narrowing down the candidates to the best IP-based match.  Using a wildcard (*)
+    after narrowing down the candidates to the best (most specific) IP-based match.  Using a wildcard (*)
     for the IP address in all of the VirtualHost directives makes this
     IP-based mapping irrelevant.</p>