On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 14:46 -0500, Brian Kroth wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm working on a project to redesign our web hosting infrastructure. > For various reasons our basic plan is to have a fleet of VMs that do > virtual hosting from an IPv6 only VLAN. Since most of the world is > still IPv4 we'll need some service to allow IPv4 only clients to talk to > our IPv6 only servers. We'd like this service to be fairly stupid > simple and require little to no configuration so our current thought is > a little Perl daemon. Basically, when a request comes in the service > will look at the Host header, do a AAAA lookup and begin a proxy session > between the client and the corresponding IPv6 vhost. It will populate > the X-Forwarded-* headers, but other than that just pass data back and > forth. > > Now, my question is is there a way to do something like this directly > with Apache without specifying for each virtual host which IPv6 address > to send the request to? > > Thanks, > Brian > Interesting. Not directly, using the stock apache modules, what you want isn't possible, but it would be reasonably simple to do with a custom apache module or as a mod_perl module, but I don't know much about mod_perl, I try to avoid perl as much as possible! Cheers Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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