Redirect domain to specific port

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 12/12/06, Ashley M. Kirchner <ashley at pcraft.com> 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.
>

The only way i know of is to have an ip per domain, then you can route
accordingly.


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