Re: Bind and ports

Glynn Clements (glynn@sensei.co.uk)
Sat, 10 Oct 1998 04:01:24 +0100 (BST)


Shane Ramey wrote:

> Is there a way to get BIND to resolve a hostname 'mail.foobar.net' to go
> to a port on another machine? What I want to do is have a masqueraded mail
> server and have the ports redirected to a machine behind the router. Any
> ideas?

DNS doesn't have anything to do with ports. It just translates
hostnames to IP addresses.

You can configure a router to redirect specific IP packets to a local
port using `ipfwadm ... -r ...'.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn@sensei.co.uk>
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