Re: How can ISP connect my computer to net?
Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
* Michael
| Can anybody point me in the right direction? Even keywords would be
| helpful. Is this a DNS issue? a router issue? or something else
| entirely?
unless you are NAT-ed, you should just be able to point a domain name
at your public IP address and access that name. If you are NAT-ed,
the box with your public IP needs to forward either all packets or
just packets destined for port 80 to your computer.
Actually, I think I've found the info on the web. NAT was a help, when I
googled
/NAT DNS/. It looks to me like they need to set iptables on their Redhat
box,
to redirect the information to my computer.
Probably it's going to have to involve a MANGLE / FORWARD combination,
probably something on the order of (c style)
if(user.foo.lt) {
if (port 80 | port 8000) MANGLE -FORWARD 10.10.10.42
else RETURN;
}
ACCEPT
I guess that means I have to figure out NAT and IPTables next.
Not a small job, but now at least I have a starting point. In the
process, I also stumbled upon something very interesting:
the Linux virtual server.
Please correct me if you know that I'm on completely the wrong
track, but aside from that I think I figured it out from your post.
If that box runs
its own web server already, the easiest is probably to have it as a
proxy, that is, it proxies requests to your computer from the world.
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