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Subject: Re: bouncing to another host
From: "<root>" <root @ wolf . microserve . com>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 18:02:26 -0400 (EDT)
To: joey @ mail . getonthe . net (Joe Smith)
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <1 . 5 . 4 . 32 . 19960428224218 . 006781cc @ 204 . 71 . 97 . 209> from "Joe Smith" at Apr 28, 96 03:42:18 pm
Reply-to: lonewolf @ wolf . microserve . com

> 
>         
> Behind our firewall we have a machine that will be registered with the IP
> address of www.ourdomain.com.  When requests to this host at port 80 are
> made, ie to http://www.ourdomain.com, I would like for this machine to
> direct the incomming request to another machine on the DMZ, for example,
> www1.ourdomain.com.  What can I setup on the primary machine
> (www.ourdomain.com) to accomplish this task?
> 
in /etc/hosts
<ip for www.ourdomain.com>	www1.ourdomain.com	www.ourdomain.com
<ip for www1.ourdomain.com>	www1.ourdomain.com

so, when tcp goes looking for the ipadr for www.ourdomain.com it will
be told the address for www1.ourdomain.com and packets for www will be sent
to www1. i think! :) 

-brian
lonewolf @
 wolf .
 microserve .
 com


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