Dual IP and service redirect in DNS

[Barry Margolin]

In article <bj7uk3$1s3$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Daniel <the_pirat at poczta.fm> wrote:
>Problem:
>1. One domain.name for two servers with different IPs (let say "ip" and
>"www_ip")
>2. One of it has Apache on port 80 (www_ip)
>3. I'd like all outside requests for domain.name on port 80 goes straight to
>the www_ip port 80.
>4. Can DNS or DynDNS do this?

DNS only performs name->address mapping, it does nothing with port numbers.

Maybe you can do something with port forwarding on your firewall.  Or set
up a minimal HTTP server on the "ip" server that sends an HTTP redirect to
"www_ip".

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