Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 11:46:34 -0600 From: "Dustin Puryear" <dpuryear@usa.net> To: <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Using DNAT and DNS round-robin Message-ID: <PGECILGGNJGDPJKLFEMIKEJECIAA.dpuryear@usa.net>
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I posted earlier concerning using FreeBSD with a web service with one firewall and two web servers, all running FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE. Basically, we feel that we have two solutions that would work. First, we can setup each web server with a series of interface aliases for each IP-based virtual host. Second, we could maintain a private internal network and assign each web IP address to be used on the firewall's public interface and then use DNAT to send the request to the web servers. I am thinking the second solution is best. Is this how most of you do this? Also, can I configure FreeBSD to use some type of round robin so that we can use multiple web servers? My concern is that when I create the routing tables the IP addresses are used internally, and not symbolic names, so specifying a hostname won't have the desire result even if I have DNS setup to round robin that hostname between several addresses. Any help? BTW, I may post a similar question to freebsd-questions, so you can ignore one of these. :) Regards, Dustin --- Dustin Puryear <dpuryear@usa.net> Information Systems Consultant http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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