From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Perton Subject: iptables: hide the real web server from users Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:53:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <354862.54159.qm@web33304.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org Dear friends, I have a web server running on system B. I run my main services to System B but I do not want my users to talk to system B directly. So I have another server (System A) in a differrent ISP & a completely different C class IP address like below: ----------------------------- --- System A (IP=a.b.c.d) --- ----------------------------- ----------------------------- --- System B (IP=e.f.g.h) --- ----------------------------- System A runs iptables(redhat EL4). I want my users to do a request like http://a.b.c.d/1.php and then machine A to make the same request to System B, get the results and send them back to the user transparently. Practically System A to act as an intermediatery to the real machine (System B). Any idea on how to do this? Regards, Tim Perton ____________________________________________________________________________________ Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367