Thats seems a good configuration, but what about /etc/hostname? thats what im not sure of, how to set what the box sees as its own hostname, without setting it to the domain (because thats the router/network), but still with Postfix and apache running.
I guess I can use the config files for them as Neil, suggested. The behavior I was seeing is that I did not set the hostname in apache's config, but set it to hostname <myhostname>. On 5/12/05, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 02:34 -0400, Calvin Spealman wrote: > > ive got a network question. i have a few machines on my local > > network, but only one IP. > > > But, i > > don't intend to run all the server daemons on one box for long. > > > i want to be able to > > address the different boxes by unique names from within the network > > sounds simple enough. > > so just give them each their own name within your network (a, b, c); and > put it in /etc/hosts of each machine. Then put in /etc/hosts (or leave > it up to the DNS) your external host name (x.com) which points to the > router. > > eg /etc/hosts: > > 192.168.1.1 a > 192.168.1.2 b > 192.168.1.3 c > 216.239.32.10 x.com > > your router forwards to each machine from the outside based on port. > > Each box thinks it is only called a, or b, or c, (or a.x.com if you > like) but then configure the service on the box to think it is your > outside name (x.com). eg in your apache.conf on machine a, you can say > the hostname is x.com, in your postfix conf on machine b, you say the > hostname is x.com. > > Internally, any machine can connect to a service on the virtual x.com, > which goes to your router and back in to the correct machine (so long as > your router is smart enough to do this without sending the traffic to > your isp and back). > > Or, internally, you can connect to the correct machine, by just using a, > b, or c, because you set it up and you know which is which. > > externally, all anyone knows about is x.com, which is listening on > multiple ports. > > I did a similar thing at home with various services (I used to have 3 > machines but I scaled back to 1!) > > HTH, > -- > Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
