[ringzero] Re: (OT) Apache Named Virtual Hosting question

  • From: Robert C Wittig <wittig.robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ringzero@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 13:18:58 -0600

Godwin Stewart wrote:

> No. It's the name of my workstation which is behind the NAT box.
> However, since I sometimes communicate with MTAs outside of my LAN (I
> bypass them on occasion), "dragonfly.bonivet.net" still has to resolve
> to the *public* IP address from which the inbound connection is
> perceived to be coming by the remote MTA. That is why, seen from the
> outside, dragonfly.bonivet.net = 81.56.185.133. Seen from *inside* my
> LAN (on which I'm running my own nameserver), dragonfly.bonivet.net is
> 192.168.1.254.
> 
>> So, what I don't understand, is how should a strictly Desktop
>> machine, that does not have a web server running on it, and has only
>> localhost sendmail running, and which share a single static IP
>> address on the DSL modem/router with any an all other non-server
>> Desktop machines (through the magic of NAT)... be named?
> 
> Think outside the box.
> 

Thanks... very clearly described!

I will study up on this, and see what I can figure out.


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