Question:
How do you differentiate the two web servers on the outside (public
network?)
What are their web addresses? If you only have one IP, that can only resolve
to one host name on the DNS. How does a user "point" to each web?
If you want two human readable URLs to funnel through one IP to a NAT
router, the only way that I know of to do it is to use an outside
redirection service and use a different port. The Flowpoint router can use
either host mapping (point a public IP to a private machine) or server
mapping (map a particular service or port to a private machine.)
In the first case, you need two IP addresses; in the second case, you need
to reference the second web server by a second port (the server doesn't have
to BE on another port.) But in either case, you can't assign two URLs to one
IP address and one port.
The only other way to do it is to do redirection on a primary server inside
the router, and let that web server decide, based on the incoming URL, to
reroute the request to the other server, e.g.,
"www.mydomain1.com" goes to web server one. Web server one serves the
content;
"www.mydomain2.com" goes to web server one, Server one redirects the url to
web server 2, who serves the content. This of course still puts some load on
Web server 1, but not as bad as having it do everything.
Aside from that, the only other thing I can think of is to use load
balancing software and have each server serve everything. That way, you get
balanced loading AND redundancy too.
Rich Cloutier
SYSTEM SUPPORT SERVICES
www.sysupport.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "GNHLUG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: Multiple webservers under NAT
> In going through the GNHLUG archives, I came across this query
> from a year ago:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03715.html
>
> I have a friend who just got into a similiar situation. Does
> anyone have other suggestions in addition to the two responses
> already posted?
>
> Brian, if you are still on this list, what did you end up doing?
> Did you ever come up with any other
> solutions?
>
> Thanks,
> Larry
>
>
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