RE: Acceess to the Web server, which is behind the firewall

[Amirmadhi Foorood <Foorood.Amirmadhi () Columbia net>]

Microsoft Proxy can do it also for you but you have to pay $Big.  Actually
with Microsoft Proxy you can run both forward and reverse Proxies
simultaneously but you can NOT get separate logs for each traffic direction.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eduardo.Martin () icex es [SMTP:Eduardo.Martin () icex es]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 3:04 AM
> To:   sergey () cgen com
> Cc:   firewall-wizards () nfr net
> Subject:      Re: Acceess to the Web server, which is behind the firewall
> Sensitivity:  Private
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have some Web servers, which are on the same computer, but have some
> > virtual hostnames. This computer is behind the firewall.
> > I would like users from Internet to access these Web servers, but I
> don't
> > want to open direct access to this computer.
> >
> > Anybody knows any software, I can install on the bastion host, which
> will
> > work as a 'pipe' to the internal Web server?
>
> What you're talking about is a reverse-proxy. Two options I know: Squid
> running in accelerator mode and Netscape Proxy Server in reverse-proxy
> mode (or secure reverse-proxy mode if HTTPS is needed).
>
> Hope this helps.
> Eduardo.