On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:29:18PM -0700, bruce wrote:
So i don't have the ability to do something like "forward foo.gotdns.com to machine1, and forward foo2.gotdns.com to machine2" which is exactly what i'm trying to accomplish!!
You wrote a really long mail so sorry if I missed some of your intentions but here's some pseudo-code showing an example ...
DNS === foo.example.com. IN A 123.123.123.123 foo1.example.com. IN CNAME foo.gotdns.com foo2.example.com. IN CNAME foo.gotdns.com
ROUTER ====== redirects all WAN traffic to internal LAN server: WAN: 123.123.123.123 => LAN: 192.168.0.10
FRONT-END APACHE (192.168.0.10) ================ NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName foo1.example.com ProxyRequests Off <Proxy *> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Proxy>
ProxyPass / http://internal1.foo.example.com/ ProxyPassReverse / http://internal1.foo.example.com/ </VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName foo2.example.com ProxyRequests Off <Proxy *> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Proxy> ProxyPass / http://internal2.foo.example.com/ ProxyPassReverse / http://internal2.foo.example.com/ </VirtualHost>
Now all you need is to set up internal[12].foo.example.com as either vhosts or on physical web servers.
That's one possible solution. Others might be more complex load balancer setups.
-- Fridh