Re: web server hub? (Newbie question)

Sounds good. Hence, it is possible to provide web hosting facilities to a
private network using Squid, right?

What I have in mind is this-> request from the internet comes in -> the
public dns will map the public name to a public IP -> a virtual server takes
the request and do NAT to a proxy server -> the proxy server forwards the
request to the appropriate web server based on an internal dns.

If this architecture works, does this mean that it is possible to host
multiple server (carrying private IPs) using only a single public IP
address?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Lowe" <alowe@pccentre.com.au>
To: "Wong Shin Neng" <wsn@sebasasia.com>
Cc: <squid-users@ircache.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: web server hub? (Newbie question)

> yes, this is what squid does... based on dns,
> the user asks squid for the page, and squid gets it, stores a copy (if
> appropriate) and gives a copy to the user...
>
>
> Andrew Lowe
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> On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Wong Shin Neng wrote:
>
> > Hello out there,
> >
> > Just out of curiousity, is it possible for Squid or any proxy-cache
server to act as a web server hub/gateway for every internet user surfing
into an intranet with several real servers?
> >
> > What I mean to say is that internet/intranet users will only need to
make HTTP request to the proxy server and the proxy server (acting as an
agent) forward the request to the appropriate web server.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Mon Jul 17 2000 - 22:46:01 MDT