From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 27 12: 6:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6E6337B400 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:06:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from DNS2.alterity.net (dns2.alterity.net [198.63.17.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E47A543E42 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:06:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from danm@prime.gushi.org) Received: from prime.gushi.org (root@prime.gushi.org [208.23.118.172]) by DNS2.alterity.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7RJ4ND97802; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:04:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from danm@prime.gushi.org) Received: from localhost (danm@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by prime.gushi.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7RJ5DLp053663; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:05:13 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:05:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" To: Matthew Seaman Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP Change In-Reply-To: <20020827183911.GB10747@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Message-ID: <20020827150424.T40773-100000@prime.gushi.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 01:12:54PM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > > > My upstream is making me change my IP addresses, and because of the DNS > > delay I was wondering if anyone knew a way to use ipfw to forward my old > > ip adresses internally onto my new ones (I can have them both configured > > at the same time, but eventually the old ones will not route). > > You should be able to configure your system to run both sets of > addresses simultaneously --- install the new address as the primary > address on the interface and the old address as an alias. > > > Most daemons listen on all ips so I don't particularly care. The one that > > worries me is apache, which will only answer certain request for certain > > vhosts on certain IP addresses. > > That depends on the style of apache virtual host: IP v-hosts won't > play ball, but Name based virtual hosts shouldn't be a problem. You > probably don't need to use IP virtual hosts unless you're running > multiple HTTPS servers. Name virtual hosts should work fine if you > use the wild card: > > NameVirtualHost * Right, but won't the line confuse it? This means in my mind I need to configure two vhosts for each host. -Dan > > in combination with running new and old addresses in parallel as > above. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- "There were some sensible, rational, and intelligent things to say. It's just that it was the last thing I expected to hear from the damn kangaroo." -Saravit, December 27, 1997 --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Web: http://prime.gushi.org finger danm@prime.gushi.org for pgp public key and tel# --------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message