Hello -

I have been searching for a solution to a problem with multiple
domains and services behind a single IP.  From my research I think
that a reverse proxy may be the solution, but judging from the landing
page I cannot tell if what I am attempting to do is impossible or just
very difficult. (grin)

I have the following setup:

Internet
|
IPCop on
Corporate Broadband connection
(Single IP)
|
Internal Network

The problem that they have is that we have several internal servers
that we would like to use products/services/servers that may compete
for port usage.

Example:
-Web Services are primarily on IIS (port 80), these are easily handled
with host headers, but if we need to also access a virtual server that
may be a linux box, we can't bridge to from IIS without a proxy (if I
understand correctly).
-SSL VPN connectivity solution on a VMWare appliance using HTTPS port.
-Exchange with OWA is published on the IIS Web server - they would like
to use HTTPS for OWA.


What they would like to do is direct mail.company.com:443 to the OWA
resources and vpn.company.com:443 to the SSL VPN appliance (two
separate internal IP addresses).

I understand that the preferred/accepted way for doing this is to
obtain multiple IPs from the ISP and map those internally.
Unfortunately that is not an option with the provider available in the
area at this time.

>From the landing page for Pound, it looks like there is a problem with
multiple domain redirection to single internal host IP with virtual
servers on that same IP, unless a wildcard cert is used, which seems
to indicate that it may be possible if all 443 traffic is redirected
to a single host/ip.

>From my small understanding of what I've read, Pound (or any other
reverse proxy) is unable to decipher the host header because it comes
after the SSL tunnel is negotiated.  It would seem that the only
solution left would be to use a product like Microsoft's ISA server
that does seem to be able to reverse proxy SSL connections.  If this
is the case, I'm just a bit surprised that there isn't an option in
the *nix world to achieve this goal.

I welcome any assistance or guidance.  I'm relatively new to the *nix
world, but I see great strength in the community and products.
Thanks!

Andy

--
To unsubscribe send an email with subject unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for questions.

Reply via email to