port forwarding

[Brad Knowles]

At 1:06 PM -0500 2005-03-10, Scot wrote:

>  Not sure if this can even be done at the dns server or not.  Want to port
>  forward to a different port for a web server.
>
>  So for example, www.example.com is hosted on port 81.  When someone looks up
>  www.example.com, I want to redirect them to www.example.com:81 or something
>  along those lines.

	DNS has nothing to do with ports.

>                       I know certain services like no-ip.com use something
>  called web forwarding.  Wasn't sure if they were doing this via dns records,
>  or if they are sending them first to a dummy website they host - then
>  redirecting via a http header or something to your host with the new port.

	It's called web forwarding for a reason -- they set up a web 
server to accept connections using that IP address/name, and then 
configure it to send an HTTP Redirect to the browser which is aimed 
at the correct location.

>  Can anyone let me know of a way of doing this via dns if possible?

	Not via DNS, no.

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