On 9/15/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lennart Sorensen</b> <<a href="mailto:lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org">lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:40:29PM -0400, Alex Beamish wrote:<br>> Hi Matt,<br>><br>> I believe what you want is port forwarding, or what you referred to as<br>> 'trigger ports'.<br>><br>> As you described, a call on port 1000 will go to one machine, and a call to
<br>> port 2000 will go to another machine.<br>><br>> I believe if you had a real firewall instead of a little router (I have a<br>> Netgear, same kind of box as yours), you could have subdomains, because<br>>
<a href="http://dyndns.org">dyndns.org</a> <<a href="http://dyndns.org">http://dyndns.org</a>> would pass<br>> <a href="http://1.mydomain.dyndns.org">1.mydomain.dyndns.org</a><<a href="http://1.mydomain.dyndns.org">
http://1.mydomain.dyndns.org</a>>to your machine,<br>> identified as<br>> <a href="http://mydomain.dyndns.org">mydomain.dyndns.org</a> <<a href="http://mydomain.dyndns.org">http://mydomain.dyndns.org</a>> for further subdomain
<br>> resolution. But I'll be happy to hear an explanation from someone who knows<br>> what they're talking about.<br><br>One IP = One service/port.<br><br>DNS is only used to lookup what the IP is. It doesn't get passed to the
<br>server at all (except in http 1.1 and the like). All it sees is<br>connection from x.x.x.x port xxx to y.y.y.y port yyy.</blockquote><div><br>
OK -- from a name-resolving point of view, the protocol I'm most
familiar with is HTTP -- hence my mistaken assumption. I'm glad to be
corrected.<br>
<br>
Alex<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> I use <a href="http://dyndns.org">dyndns.org</a> <<a href="http://dyndns.org">
http://dyndns.org</a>> and port forwarding myself -- works<br>> beautifully.<br><br>Lennart Sorensen<br>--<br>The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: <a href="http://tlug.ss.org">http://tlug.ss.org</a><br>TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
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