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dpuryear
03-26-2003, 06:41 PM
First, I like DSM. It's nice software. Very nice interface. Good job guys. However, I do see one problem and I'm hoping someone here has a solution.

We have our web server behind a firewall. The firewall has the public IP and we assigned a private IP to our web server. All fine and dandy. This is how we have managed both a FreeBSD web farm and a farm built using a Linux Networx cluster. (One of the DSM guys told me that using a private IP on a webserver can cause problems. I have yet to see any problems with this kind of configuration to date until we hit this snag with DSM.)

Unfortunately, whenever we tried to add a domain with DSM it creates the zone with the local IP. I suspect it does some other odd things when using the private IP rather than allowing us to give it a public IP address to use when creating zones and so forth.

Is there a way for us to get around this issue with DSM?

If not we are just going to create an interface alias eth0:1 with the public IP and then tell DSM that is our IP address rather than the private IP.

LeeJ
03-27-2003, 02:38 AM
Yes, add the public ip address that you would like to use using the ip manager and then use that ip address when setting up accounts.

When you setup accounts you can select the ip address that is used after you have added the IP via the ip manager.

IP Manager
http://www.zervex.com/user_guides/html/Administrator/IPs.htm

dpuryear
03-27-2003, 08:25 AM
You are right. I had seen this option but hadn't quite tested it out yet. Excellent suggestion, thanks.