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Date:      Sun, 24 Feb 2002 19:51:38 +0100
From:      Alex <FreeBSD@cybertron.tmfweb.nl>
To:        Florian Nigsch <flo@nigsch.com>
Cc:        Lane Holcombe <lane@joeandlane.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re[2]: DNS? nat?
Message-ID:  <17211615632.20020224195138@cybertron.tmfweb.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20020224191736.C23097@nigsch.com>
References:  <200202241748.g1OHmR701169@joeandlane.com> <20020224191736.C23097@nigsch.com>

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Hello Florian,

Sunday, February 24, 2002, 7:17:36 PM, you wrote:

FN> On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 11:48:27AM -0600, Lane Holcombe wrote:
>> I have successfully used nat to transfer incoming requests to the 
>> Windows box based upon port number, (e.g. www.mydomain.com:8080), 
>> but I can't seem to figure out how to do it based upon hostname (e.g. 
>> windows.mydomain.com).
FN> ---end quoted text---

FN> I don't know if I am much of a help...

FN> As far as I know you can only redirect adresses and ports with natd
FN> based on the IP adress.  What I am trying to say is that natd will
FN> not know for which hostname the packet is destined which it should
FN> redirect.  It only knows of the IP number it runs on.  So if you
FN> have multiple hostnames on the same IP I personally think it's not
FN> possible with natd to do redirecting based on hostname.  Unlike
FN> with apache where you can have multiple virtual hosts distinguished
FN> by their URL.

FN> Someone correct me if I am wrong...

FN> flo

Its able to understand this (out of the man natd):

redirect_port tcp www1:http,www2:http,www3:http www:http

Means http request goes to www1 2 or 3 base on the round-robin
scheduling.

-- 
Best regards,
 Alex


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