Search Again: Re: Dealing with NAT From: Kirk Samuelson Date: Sunday, July 4, 1999 Time: 4:05:00 pm On Sunday, July 4, 1999 5:32:42 AM, Men & Mice Support wrote: >>Hi again. I'm on a DSL line which uses Network Address Translation to map >>incoming requests to individual computers on my LAN. I have only one public >>IP address for the router. NAT allows you to alias a real port (80) to a >>private port (9001 for instance). Thus: >> >>166.90.75.31 -> Web Server A >>166.90.75.31:9001 -> Web Server B >> >>This is all fine and dandy BUT dns records don't contain any port >>information (do they?). > >That is correct. > >> So I can't use domain names for Web Server B. Or can >>I? Is there a workaround for this? > >If I understand properly, in the above example, 166.90.75.31 is the public >address, and web servers A and B are your physical machines behind the NAT >proxy. > That's right. You got it. >If this is the case, the best you can do is to point all your domain names >at your public address, and always use a port number to access web server >B. So for domainA.com, you have a URL like http://www.domainA.com/, and for >domain B, you have a URL like http://www.domainB.com:9001/. > That sucks! ;-) >If someone types in www.domainB.com (without the port number), they'll get >web server A. On server A, you can use WebSTAR's virtual host manager to >map www.domainB.com to a redirect (raw) file, which will redirect them to >www.domainB.com:9001. Your NAT server will route this to web server B. > >How's that for a workaround? That would work. Thank you. I think I'll be working on getting a second IP address for the router though. thanks again, -Kirk Kirk Samuelson Exotype, Inc. http://www.exotype.com _______________________________________________________________ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The XXII Group http://www.xxii.com

Messages In This Thread: Dealing with NAT by Kirk Samuelson on Jul 4, 1999 at 3:17:00 am Re: Dealing with NAT by Men & Mice Support on Jul 4, 1999 at 10:32:00 am Re: Dealing with NAT by Kirk Samuelson on Jul 4, 1999 at 4:05:00 pm