Am I able to forward traffic from an external subdomain to a specific local host?
- by George Bowman
I apologise in advance if the question doesn't make sense, please let me know.
I've got a small LAN (~10 Virtual Servers) using Win Server 2008 as a DNS server. This is behind a smoothwall express 3.0 firewall with ports forwarded for specific services. I have a domain (123-reg) with the NS's that of afraid.org (DynamicDNS) and subdomains pointed to my (Dynamic) IP address e.g.
subdomain1.example.com - 123.456.789.101.
I think that adequately explains my set up.
My question is, am I able to have subdomains e.g. subdomain1.example.com only point to a specific local host? Like so:
subdomain1.example.com:80 - firewall(external facing) - server1.example.com:80
subdomain2.example.com:80 - firewall(external facing) - server2.example.com:80
I don't actually necessarily want to use port 80, otherwise I would just use VirtualHosts on apache, it is just an example port.
Currently I can use either subdomain1.example.com OR subdomain2.example.com and they will both point to server1.example.com:80
I do not have to stay using Win Server 2008 for DNS, I am more than happy to move over to BIND if needs be, it was just easier to use Win Server 2008's DNS.
I do not know if this is even possible, I have a feeling it isn't as I've only got one external IP address but any information is useful!
