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Date:      28 Oct 2003 11:19:08 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        'Lewis Thompson' <purple@lewiz.net>
Cc:        'FreeBSD-questions' <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Complicated ipfw/ipf forwarding.
Message-ID:  <44oew1cp37.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031028144509.GM288@lewiz.org>
References:  <20031028143531.GH288@lewiz.org> <001101c39d61$4778bf30$0501a8c0@canada> <20031028144509.GM288@lewiz.org>

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'Lewis Thompson' <purple@lewiz.net> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:39:23AM -0500, Jason Lavigne wrote:
> > > Could I have red.foo.bar forwarded to 192.168.0.2, pink.foo.bar
> > forwarded to 192.168.0.3 and say blue.foo.bar go to the local machine
> > 
> > wouldn't you use DNS (bind) for this? 
> 
> How?  I only have one external IP address (say 1.2.3.4) but behind the
> NAT machine I have many.  However, I have a.foo.com, b.foo.com and
> c.foo.com.  I want some IP forwarding software to rewrite the
> destination address from 1.2.3.4 based on the CNAME entry (in the same
> way Apache can do).

How would the IP forwarding software *know* about the CNAME entry?
In Apache's case, the HTTP request tells it, but other protocols don't
necessarily include the domain name that the client is using.



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