Networking question

[Thomas E. Dukes]

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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Alexander Dalloz
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 10:01 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Networking question
> 
> Am Do, den 07.10.2004 schrieb Thomas E. Dukes um 15:26:
> 
> > I a couple pentium II machine I can get my hands on.  
> Because my one 
> > FC 2 PC is handling everything, I'd like to setup these 
> older machines 
> > to do mail, mysql and maybe some other services to take the 
> load off the main PC.
> > 
> > If I add these PCs to the network behind my firewall, how 
> do I direct 
> > these services to the various PCs?  Is this a firewall thing or DNS?
> 
> If you have static IPs for the hosts and services, then it is 
> a topic for configuring a DNS properly.
> If you have to do NAT with a gateway router which is the only 
> host directly connected to the internet, then it is a job for 
> iptables.
> 
Thanks!
I thought this might be more an iptables issue but didn't want to go off in
the wrong direction.

As for mysql, I could probably just set the server in the applications to
some internal network address rather than 'localhost'.  Would that be a
correct assumption?