Hi Ortwin, Is there an alternate way to resolve domain names to IP addresses on a client system without contacting DNS servers or having the domain names mapped to IP addresses in the hosts file?
Can I push my own table in a file (having domain names to IP address mapping) to a client system that would append to or override the entries present in the DNS resolver cache on that system? Is it possible to do such a thing? Thanks, Brijesh -----Original Message----- From: Ortwin Glück [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 3:11 PM To: HttpComponents Project Subject: Re: How to proxy multiple web servers? Brijesh, the Host header makes the most sense with domain names, not IP addresses. It was invented, so that you can host hundreds of domains on a single IP and port. Maybe you need a split DNS horizon as well. Such that your clients would resolve the reverse proxy IP for all DNS names. Thanks a lot for your suggestion. I am *NOW* getting the picture about how to get it working. So I can have a DNS name for my reverse proxy, say revproxy <-> 10.10.10.10. Then each web server that I need to proxy can be represented by a subdomain like app1.revproxy, app2.revproxy and so on.... And I somehow would need the clients to resolve these names to my reverse proxy IP address. This is not going to be easy since I would have the web servers (to proxy) added to my reverse proxy dynamically. One easy thing would be to add these names to the hosts file on the client systems to map to the reverse proxy IP address. But this would need to be done on all the clients that would access my reverse proxy ... a big task indeed. Is there any easier method out there to accomplish this? Even if I dynamically add/delete names to the DNS server using a Java program, it would work only in a closed environment where all clients would be expected to use the same DNS server. Thanks, Brijesh --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
