[ale] Conceptual issue with self-hosting

[Michael Still]

proxy from the public address to the internal box.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_proxy.html#proxypass


On 8/25/06, Trey Sizemore <trey at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Hi all-
>
> I'm having a bit of a conceptual issue I'm trying to fight through.  I
> have a domain that I host locally here at home.  I'm assigned a dynamic
> IP by my ISP, so I use zoneedit.com and ddclient to update my A records
> at zoneedit.
>
> My Internet facing IP gets updated periodically and I have A records
> for mydomain.com, www.mydomain.com, and oes.mydomain.com (which all
> point to the same IP address).  Zoneedit also has an MX entry I created
> to pass mail onto oes.mydomain.com.
>
> I have a firewall at home and a DMZ behind which sit a couple of
> boxes.  I have rules in place which pass HTTP packets to Alpha and an
> SMTP proxy setup for mail that gets passed to Bravo.  One box (Alpha
> with IP 192.168.0.200) is a webserver and pointing to mydomain.com or
> www.mydomain.com gives me the index page on Alpha.
>
> The other box (Beta with IP 192.168.0.201) is a mail server.  It also
> has the ability to access mail via a web interface by going to
> 192.168.0.201/mail *internally*.  However, I want to be able to access
> the webmail interface *externally* as well, but of course going to
> mydomain.com/mail or oes.mydomain.com/mail doesn't work.  I assume that
> this is because these requests are going to Alpha and not Beta.
>
> Alpha also acts as the DNS behind the firewall for the machines on the
> subnet.  I have entries for both Alpha and Beta there (A and CNAME
> records with name and IP).
>
> My question is:  how can I access the webmail interface of Bravo on the
> outside given my current setup?
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Trey
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