Re: [squid-users] Routing By Hostname

On Sunday 21 September 2003 3:45 pm, Cody Harris wrote:

> I was told by the iptables people that squid would allow me to route
> incoming hostnames to ips on my network. Here's now i'm setup:
>
> INTERNET -> Router ------------> Computer One (bagle.foo.com)
>
> +----> Computer Two (mail.foo.com)
>
> +----> Computer Three (foo.com)
>
> How do i set up my router to take all incoming requests to reach subdoman
> and forward them to the right computer?

This sounds more like a DNS question to me.

IPtables / netfilter will certainly not help with this, as that simply blocks
some packets which would otherwise have been routed - I like to regard
netfilter as "a router which can say no".

The question I would ask about what you want to do is "what high-level
protocols are you trying to do this for?" ie http, ftp, smtp, pop3...?

If you are only talking about http, then Squid + redirects may be to answer.

If not (and perhaps even if you are), then DNS is probably the answer.

Regards,

Antony.

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