On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, darren chamberlain wrote:
> Oleg Bartunov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something to this effect on 01/02/2001:
> > > You can explicitly bind an apache server to localhost.
> > This works only if frontend and backend are on the same physical server.
> > But it will not works even in this situation if you have several
> > proxies running while you want backend accepts requests only from
> > one specific proxy.
>
> Bind an address on the 192.168.0 net as an alias on a real interface:
RFC 1918 says that you should choose a random network on one of the
private subnets:
10/8
172.16/12
192.168/16
But yes, using a private network is a good solution.
[explanation of ifconfig]
> And then bind another address on the same private subnet to an interface
> on another machine, and they can talk to each other via this network
> (set the route correctly as well, naturally).
> This interface will be invisible from the 'net.
Unless you are unlucky and it is found to be routable. You ought to drop
these three at your firewall anyway. but modperl!=NANOG :)
However, it is unlikely to route to your machine...
MBM
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