This is as I had hoped, and maybe I'm doing something wrong, but if I don't give my boxes a proper domain name, apache and postfix will not start. They complain about the domain name and bail out.
On 5/12/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 12 May 2005 02:34:11 -0400, Calvin Spealman wrote: > > > ive got a network question. i have a few machines on my local > > network, but only one IP. I can congure my router for all the proper > > port forwarding for my server, but hostnames is giving me some > > confusion. To run a lot of things properly, such as Apache and > > Postfix, i need a qualified hostname configured for the server. But, i > > don't intend to run all the server daemons on one box for long. I > > can't give the same name to multiple servers, and i want to be able to > > address the different boxes by unique names from within the network > > (got a nifty naming scheme and everything), so how can i go about the > > best set up here? > > Just name them as you see fit. The names are only applicable to your > private network. Externally, all public names will point to your one > public IP address and your router will take care of forwarding the > requests for each service to the correct box. > > For example, www.mydomain.org, ftp.mydomain.org and mail.mydomain.org > will all resolve to your public IP address, but you may have something > like this /etc/hosts setup for your lan > > 192.168.0.1 box1 www.lan > 192.168.0.2 box2 ftp.lan > 192.168.0.3 box3 mail.lan > > As long as your router forwards ports 80, 21 and (25|110) to > 192.168.0.1,2,3 respectively, it should all work, with no one on the > outside knowing anything about your local network. > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Keyboard: (n.) a device used by programmers to write software for a mouse > or joystick and by operators for playing games such as 'word processing.' > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
