For a handy pound port see:

http://folesvaert.no/pound/


/Pete


On 9 Jul 2007, at 4:59 PM, Richard Wilson wrote:

> Stuart Henderson wrote:
>> On 2007/07/08 15:30, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
>>> Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>> Or use different ports and proxy them based on host headers rather
>>>> than burning IP addresses (for some RIR you are expected not to use
>>>> IP addresses for non-SSL virtual web hosting).
>>>>
>>>> I haven't checked, but hoststated should be able to do this.
>>> What software would you run on port 80 to break out the requests  
>>> to the
>>> various apache instances?  Squid with accelerator mode seems like  
>>> a massive
>>> beast to use for this purpose.  Any smaller apps?
>>
>> I thought you may already be able to use hoststated but I was  
>> mistaken.
>> The least intrusive way to add it there may be to provide a new  
>> action
>> that matches on the Host: header and allows the table name to be  
>> over-
>> ridden (obviously this is only any good with relay, not PF tables).
>>
>> Other than that, it looks like Apache mod_proxy (ProxyPass) can be
>> configured per-virtual-host so that should work.
>>
>> http://www.apsis.ch/pound/ is another option but I don't know how
>> well it works on OpenBSD. I think I've seen it run here, but I don't
>> know if it really works well.
>>
>> Varnish can probably do this too, but doesn't run here at all.
>> (It's a bit of an unusual app...)
>>
>
> I can vouch that Pound works very well on OpenBSD, and is very BSD- 
> like
> in its style and philosophy, the developers aiming of simple,  
> readable,
> provable code doing a specific job well.
>
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