Re: web server hub? (Newbie question)

At 12:51 18/07/00 +0800, Wong Shin Neng wrote:
>Sounds good. Hence, it is possible to provide web hosting facilities to a
>private network using Squid, right?

Yes.

>What I have in mind is this-> request from the internet comes in -> the
>public dns will map the public name to a public IP -> a virtual server takes
>the request and do NAT to a proxy server -> the proxy server forwards the
>request to the appropriate web server based on an internal dns.
>
>If this architecture works, does this mean that it is possible to host
>multiple server (carrying private IPs) using only a single public IP
>address?

Yes. Linux (amongst other OSes) provides this via an IP Masquerade. See the
Linux IPChains HOWTO for more info.

Regards

Martin A. Brooks
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The package said Windows NT 4 or better - I installed Linux.
Received on Tue Jul 18 2000 - 01:09:05 MDT