Set up apache on the linux box and let it forward all request to the windows box. The apache httpd documentation provides excelent help on this subject.
In all fairness, a network administrator should have warned you that this would happen. DNS changes are never instant but can take up to a week to get propagated all over the world. Wouter On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 21:23:57 +0000, Graham Bleach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 12:15:05PM -0600, Stephen Charles Huey wrote: > > I have Tomcat 4.1.27 on a Linux box at a particular public IP address, > > and I want to make it forward ALL requests to a Tomcat on a Windows box > > at another public IP address. Over the weekend, we changed the DNS to > > the Linux box, but now we need to roll back to the Windows box, and we > > already changed the DNS through our ISP, and a lot of folks are hitting > > the Windows box, but some people are still hitting the Linux one. So, > > we want to turn on the Tomcat on the Linux box and somehow send all > > those folks to the Windows one. > > > > Is there any way to do this? > > This is completely offtopic. > > Some ideas: > > - If you only have one virtual host on the Windows box, then start a > webserver on the Linux box and set it to redirect to the IP address of > the windows machine. > > - Start a proxy on the Linux box and have it hand all requests to the > Windows box. > > - Add some NAT rules to the linux box's netfliter rules to send all > connections (depends on root access and relevant kernel modules being > installed) > > # very much untested and to be used at your own risk! > cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # check what it's set to now > echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > iptables -I PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp --dport 80 -d <linux ip> -j DNAT \ > --to-destination <windows ip> > > To revert back to previous state, write the previous value of > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward back to it and then replace the '-I' in > the iptables command with a '-D'. > > G > -- > The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows > that the average man can see much better than he can think. > -- Ladies' Home Journal > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Regards, Wouter Boers business: http://www.abcdarium.nl personal: http://www.ikke.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
