Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 15:05:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <danm@prime.gushi.org> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP Change Message-ID: <20020827150424.T40773-100000@prime.gushi.org> In-Reply-To: <20020827183911.GB10747@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 01:12:54PM -0400, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: > > > My upstream is making me change my IP addresses, and because of the DNS > > delay I was wondering if anyone knew a way to use ipfw to forward my old > > ip adresses internally onto my new ones (I can have them both configured > > at the same time, but eventually the old ones will not route). > > You should be able to configure your system to run both sets of > addresses simultaneously --- install the new address as the primary > address on the interface and the old address as an alias. > > > Most daemons listen on all ips so I don't particularly care. The one that > > worries me is apache, which will only answer certain request for certain > > vhosts on certain IP addresses. > > That depends on the style of apache virtual host: IP v-hosts won't > play ball, but Name based virtual hosts shouldn't be a problem. You > probably don't need to use IP virtual hosts unless you're running > multiple HTTPS servers. Name virtual hosts should work fine if you > use the wild card: > > NameVirtualHost * Right, but won't the <virtualhost ip.add.ress.com:80> line confuse it? This means in my mind I need to configure two vhosts for each host. -Dan > > in combination with running new and old addresses in parallel as > above. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- "There were some sensible, rational, and intelligent things to say. It's just that it was the last thing I expected to hear from the damn kangaroo." -Saravit, December 27, 1997 --------Dan Mahoney-------- Techie, Sysadmin, WebGeek Gushi on efnet/undernet IRC ICQ: 13735144 AIM: LarpGM Web: http://prime.gushi.org finger danm@prime.gushi.org for pgp public key and tel# --------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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