"Ashley M. Kirchner" <ashley@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there a way to redirect a hostname/domain pair to a specific port?
Let me explain: we have several Windows machines on our local network
that run VNC server that folks then access from outside our network.
Right now everyone connects by punching in the firewall address with
the port number for their machine, for example
firewall.domain.com:5901 resolves to my internal machine. The problem
is, for me to maintain these machines it becomes a hassle trying to
figure out whether such-n-such machine is port 5904 or 5908. So, if I
configure our DNS to have ashley.domain.com resolve to the firewall
IP, is there a way I can also have it go directly to whatever port I
need it to go to, so that all I'd have to do is enter that in my VNC
connect box, and not worry about what port number my machine is
actually on? Even if it means I'm maintaining an internal lookup map
of what hostname belongs to which port, that's fine. I'd rather not
have to remember that every time.
* WARNING!!! This is a total stab in the dark. *
I wonder if you could do something like set up an Apache virtual server
for each name that does a rewrite of the stream to the desired IP
address and port. You then use VNC over http.
DNS only maps host names to IP addresses. I don't know of anyway to
have it also do port information. Something along the lines of Apache
virtual server doing a rewrite MIGHT work. On the other hand, I have
never tried anything like this. Also, I don't know if there is any
other application available that virtualizes connections based on the
name used for the connection that avoids the overhead of running an
Apache virtual server for each connection.
Cheers,
Dave
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