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I have a NAT router and windows server 2003 box with DNS after the router. The server handles all websites and DNS with port 80 forwarded to it. Is it possible to add a second server with other websites and put another forward lookup zone on the first server to redirect web requests to the second new server?
i'm not sure if something can do what you want. however i think that a third server (or one of the existing ones) with a reverse proxy can help you to solve the problem
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Mike,
No offense taken. I have one public IP supplies by a cable internet provider. From the cable modem I have a D-link 4-port router with port 80 forwarded to my server1. Server1 hosts my websites as well as internal DNS. I guess what I'm looking to do is have all website A-records go to that one public IP. It would then get forwarded to my server1 which currently hosts internal DNS and all of my websites. Id like to create a new forward lookup zone on the internal dns to redirect a website request to another server.
Example:
www.mysite1.com:80---->MyPublicIP--->Router-->19
But what I'd like to do:
www.mysite2.com:80---->MyPublicIP--->Router-->19
Does that make sense?
No offense taken. I have one public IP supplies by a cable internet provider. From the cable modem I have a D-link 4-port router with port 80 forwarded to my server1. Server1 hosts my websites as well as internal DNS. I guess what I'm looking to do is have all website A-records go to that one public IP. It would then get forwarded to my server1 which currently hosts internal DNS and all of my websites. Id like to create a new forward lookup zone on the internal dns to redirect a website request to another server.
Example:
www.mysite1.com:80---->MyPublicIP--->Router-->19
But what I'd like to do:
www.mysite2.com:80---->MyPublicIP--->Router-->19
Does that make sense?
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ok makes sense. I am only familiar with home network routers that support one WAN IP. Where can I check out routers that can obtain multiple WAN IP's like this would need?
Sorry my knowledge of cable connections is nil as I have always had ADSL and cable doesn't get used by businesses normally in th uk. Does the modem present a standard ethernet cable connection for starters?
If so pretty well any small dual ethernet interface Cisco router would do the trick. What do you have at the moment?
If so pretty well any small dual ethernet interface Cisco router would do the trick. What do you have at the moment?
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1. how many PUBLIC IPs do you have?
2. what kind of NAT router do you have?
>>The server handles all websites and DNS with port 80 forwarded to it.
if it hosts your public DNS, it will have to have port 53 forwarded to it as well, but what do you mean by it handles 'all' websites? do you mean that server is the DNS server server that all your clients are pointed to? Do you mean that this server hosts ALL websites that you host? or what?
>>Is it possible to add a second server with other websites and put another forward lookup zone on the first server to redirect web requests to the second new server?
this is the statement that has me really confused....forward DNS lookup zones do NOT redirect web requests. Forward lookup zones respond to DNS queries: thats it, nothing more. IE a request for www.yourdomain.com will return to the client the IP (in the forward lookup zone) for www.youdomain.com IE 88.3.2.1. Then the DNS client will look to 88.3.2.1 to find www.yourdomain.com, thats it. A forward lookup zone cannot redirect, but it does DIRECT.
If you want some of the websites that you host to be DIRECTED to another server, just edit the PUBLIC DNS record for those websites to point to the PUBLIC IP of another web server.