Re: routing question - AS/400 and multiple IPs

["L. S. Russell" <leslier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Wait Brad!
Haven't you read the Dog Bites column in this months News/400? Your
AS/400 is overworked and according to her she would like help. According
to that most intelligent of dogs you must purchase a Netfinity for
things like this, the AS/400 is only good for payroll.

"Stone, Brad V (TC)" wrote:
> 
> Hope this isn't too off topic, but it does use AS/400.  :)
> 
> Here's what we're doing.  Right now we have multiple NT servers running
> online customer service web pages for multiple companies.  They're bogged
> down and we are moving them over to the AS/400.
> 
> So, here's what I want to do.  For each company, I want to set up an
> internal IP address and use the BindSpecific directive so that I can have an
> instance for each one.  (much easier than virtual hosts)
> 
> Our network guys aren't sure this will work and think I will need to use
> Host Headers (ie Virtual Hosts).  Here's what I envisioned happening with
> the router...
> 
> Customer 1, www.cust1.com.  We make a subdomain of cso.cust1.com and point
> it to our internal address 172.25.1.1
> 
> Customer 2, www.cust2.com.  Again, a subdomain of cso.cust2.com and point to
> 172.25.1.2
> 
> And so on...
> 
> What I'm not sure about is do we register subdomains with Internic, or do we
> set those up on our own DNS servers?  In other words, it knows the cust1.com
> part, goes to our server, then from there we can forward subdomain cso to
> our internal machines?  (I could be way off..)
> 
> Any one run accross having to do this yet?  I asked our guys about it before
> and they said it should be possible.
> 
> Brad
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