Yeah, only he does not have any "one true apache" server answering. I thnik that is, however, what he /should/ do. On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 17:47, Erik Bourget wrote: > Glen Lee Edwards <glen@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I have several domains that use the same IP address. Can I DNAT them to > > different servers based on domain name instead of IP address using > > iptables? I've tried the following, but it isn't working: > > > > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d 1st.domain.com --dport 80 -j > > DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.12:80 > > > > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d 2nd.domain.com --dport 80 -j > > DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.13:80 > > > > Everything is being forwarded to 192.168.1.12 no matter which domain is > > used. It appears that the domains are first being translated into the > > IP address, which is used instead. > > TCP packets know nothing of DNS ... an application will 1) look up the name at > a DNS server, 2) retrieve the IP from the DNS server, and 3) connect to the IP > address. > > Apache can do virtual domains ... HTTP 1.1 requires that you specify the > domain name. > > - Erik > >
