My pleasure - good luck with the implementation.

Thanks,

Sam


2009/4/10 Brijesh Deo <[email protected]>

> Thanks for clarifying this one too :-)
> Yes, I think with one wildcard DNS record, this would work perfectly
> fine.
> But we also have customers who do not want to add a Domain Name entry
> for the reverse proxy server. They would just use the IP address to
> access it. And others would add the DNS entry happily.
>
> So, I am thinking of supporting both the mechanisms in my code and
> provide a configuration option to the user letting them use the
> mechanism they can support in their environment :)
>
> Thanks a lot for the help here. Really appreciate your detailed
> responses.
>
> Thanks,
> Brijesh
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Crawford [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 5:14 PM
> To: HttpClient User Discussion
> Subject: [Junk released by Allow List] Re: How to proxy multiple web
> servers?
>
> Morning,
>
> Option 1 is most definitely still an option for you. You'd create a
> wildcard
> dns A record, maybe something like:
>
> *.devices.company.com  =>  10.0.0.1
>
> So any sub-domain of devices.company.com will resolve to that one IP
> address
> - which would be your reverse proxy. Then in your reverse proxy you have
> some functionality to dynamically support loading of new hostnames. So
> the
> logic will be all held on the reverse proxy - the DNS just points
> everything
> at your server.
>
> You definitely do not need to make DNS changes or local hosts file
> changes
> for each new device you want to support :-)
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Sam
>
>
>
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