Redirect domain to specific port

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 12/12/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 10:19 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner 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.
>
> If you were using addresses with numbers per machine, I'd simply add
> them together.  So port 5902 was for machine at w.x.y.2, and so on.
> You'd connect to a consistent address (e.g. w.x.y.z being your gateway)
> for *all* external connections to any internal box, and just port
> forward the ports.  Your firewall would redirect based on the port
> numbers, alone.
>
> If you only had a smallish number of boxes, that'd be easy enough to do.
> If you had a larger number, I'd probably change from using port numbers
> in the 5000's to something higher.
>
> You'd only need to know the number of your box to connect to it.
>
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That's what the OP does now.

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