Redirecting outbound URL requests to LAN address before DNS lookup???

Hello, thanks in advance for reading this.

I feel like a kid being told to look up how to spell a word in the
dictionary, which of course I could do if I only knew how to spell it.

My problem:

I need to have a local machine host a "mirror" version of one of my
sites for security reasons such that:

normally, requests made to www.mypage.com would go past the router,
translated to say 217.xxx.xxx.xxx and then served from that ip.

What I need to happen is that, when the router gets a request from the
LAN to www.mypage.com instead of allowing DNS translation and routing
packets through the WAN, it instead translates and redirects all
traffic to a LAN machine at say 192.168.255.255

This has to happen all the time, every time, from every machine on the
LAN.

It's a security issue with the network -- they don't want any WAN
traffic for this, no matter how secure and encrypted.

Trouble is, I don't even know if this is a common thing or if it is
even possible. Is there a way I can reference the internal "mirror"
server using the same URL, or do I have to tell people on the LAN
that, instead of typing www.mypage.com into their browsers, they
instead have to type 192.168.255.255???

If this is common or possible, maybe just letting me know what the
process is called would help. I could Google it if I knew what in the
hell it was.

Thanks again!!

Try googling for "split dns" and read up on that. Essentially, you need to
run a dns server that resolves your domain name to different IP addresses...
at least that is what I *think* from your description and my (perhaps) hasty
reading of it. Good luck! If it is a split dns you require, it may take
some reading to get your head into the idea... :-)

At least there will be no shortage of reading material for the holidays...

HTH

Kerry Liles


"Shannon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello, thanks in advance for reading this.
>
> I feel like a kid being told to look up how to spell a word in the
> dictionary, which of course I could do if I only knew how to spell it.
>
> My problem:
>
> I need to have a local machine host a "mirror" version of one of my
> sites for security reasons such that:
>
> normally, requests made to www.mypage.com would go past the router,
> translated to say 217.xxx.xxx.xxx and then served from that ip.
>
> What I need to happen is that, when the router gets a request from the
> LAN to www.mypage.com instead of allowing DNS translation and routing
> packets through the WAN, it instead translates and redirects all
> traffic to a LAN machine at say 192.168.255.255
>
> This has to happen all the time, every time, from every machine on the
> LAN.
>
> It's a security issue with the network -- they don't want any WAN
> traffic for this, no matter how secure and encrypted.
>
> Trouble is, I don't even know if this is a common thing or if it is
> even possible. Is there a way I can reference the internal "mirror"
> server using the same URL, or do I have to tell people on the LAN
> that, instead of typing www.mypage.com into their browsers, they
> instead have to type 192.168.255.255???
>
> If this is common or possible, maybe just letting me know what the
> process is called would help. I could Google it if I knew what in the
> hell it was.
>
> Thanks again!!

You could edit the hosts file on the computers to point www.mypage.com to
192.168.255.255
Thart would be the easiest way.

Thanks,
Bruce


"Shannon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello, thanks in advance for reading this.
>
> I feel like a kid being told to look up how to spell a word in the
> dictionary, which of course I could do if I only knew how to spell it.
>
> My problem:
>
> I need to have a local machine host a "mirror" version of one of my
> sites for security reasons such that:
>
> normally, requests made to www.mypage.com would go past the router,
> translated to say 217.xxx.xxx.xxx and then served from that ip.
>
> What I need to happen is that, when the router gets a request from the
> LAN to www.mypage.com instead of allowing DNS translation and routing
> packets through the WAN, it instead translates and redirects all
> traffic to a LAN machine at say 192.168.255.255
>
> This has to happen all the time, every time, from every machine on the
> LAN.
>
> It's a security issue with the network -- they don't want any WAN
> traffic for this, no matter how secure and encrypted.
>
> Trouble is, I don't even know if this is a common thing or if it is
> even possible. Is there a way I can reference the internal "mirror"
> server using the same URL, or do I have to tell people on the LAN
> that, instead of typing www.mypage.com into their browsers, they
> instead have to type 192.168.255.255???
>
> If this is common or possible, maybe just letting me know what the
> process is called would help. I could Google it if I knew what in the
> hell it was.
>
> Thanks again!!

Are you sure it's routing through the WAN?

My router picks up it's own IP address, and routes internally = smart.

"Shannon" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
: Hello, thanks in advance for reading this.
:
: I feel like a kid being told to look up how to spell a word in the
: dictionary, which of course I could do if I only knew how to spell it.
:
: My problem:
:
: I need to have a local machine host a "mirror" version of one of my
: sites for security reasons such that:
:
: normally, requests made to www.mypage.com would go past the router,
: translated to say 217.xxx.xxx.xxx and then served from that ip.
:
: What I need to happen is that, when the router gets a request from the
: LAN to www.mypage.com instead of allowing DNS translation and routing
: packets through the WAN, it instead translates and redirects all
: traffic to a LAN machine at say 192.168.255.255
:
: This has to happen all the time, every time, from every machine on the
: LAN.
:
: It's a security issue with the network -- they don't want any WAN
: traffic for this, no matter how secure and encrypted.
:
: Trouble is, I don't even know if this is a common thing or if it is
: even possible. Is there a way I can reference the internal "mirror"
: server using the same URL, or do I have to tell people on the LAN
: that, instead of typing www.mypage.com into their browsers, they
: instead have to type 192.168.255.255???
:
: If this is common or possible, maybe just letting me know what the
: process is called would help. I could Google it if I knew what in the
: hell it was.
:
: Thanks again!!




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