----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lucas" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 12:30 AM
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Port Forwarding And Virtual Sites
> At 11:40 PM 3/19/2002, you wrote:
> > >
> > > The Linksys has my public WAN IP address. It has the ability
> > > to forward ports to machines on the LAN which have local IP
> > > addresses or it can just designate a DMZ host. It works fine
> > > with just one site. I have DNS on my RaQ4 setup to resolve
> > > the domains (virtual sites) with the local IP addresses. Are
> > > you saying that setup doesn't work? Do I need to give my
> > > virtual sites public IP addresses?
> > >
> >
> >Maybe I misread your post, but a domain must resolve to an IP. If the
> >DNS points to the IP in the reserved space 192.168.xx.xx it won't work.
> >
> >I would recommend you get some more IPs, or collocate the server for
> >your hosting as you will need a unique IP for each secure site, unless
> >you work with the wildcard cert and sub-domains as mentioned in previous
> >posts in another thread. I don't know what kind of bandwidth you're
> >paying for, but I found that it's impossible to get a big enough pipe
> >for as cheap per month as I can lease a RaQ.
> >--
> >Dan Kriwitsky
> >
> >
>
>
> What he has is one ip that is a web ip and a router that it is on.
> The router allows passthrough to a 192.168.1.x machine.
> If I have url www.domain.com and it points at a.b.c.d and a.b.c.d is the
ip
> of the router, I can pass port 80 or all requests via the DMZ to a machine
> on the internal network with ip 192.168.1.x. My web page will come up
just
> fine. I have not tried doing this with my Raq and seeing what happens
with
> all the virtual sites though.
>
>
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David,
It works if the virtual sites have the same internal IP as the default site,
but then there is the issue of SSL on the virtual sites.