[OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

[Ian Collins]

DormitionSkete at hotmail.com wrote:
> On Feb 4, 2013, at 8:08 PM, Ian Collins wrote:
>
>> DormitionSkete at hotmail.com wrote:
>>> I think I'm crazy for wanting to set up three zones on this one machine.  I have specific reasons for it, so I can justify it (to myself), but when I first embarked upon this project, I wasn't even going to use zones at all, just because I didn't think I should introduce that much complexity to our set up.
>> Only 3?  We tend to use a new zone for any new service on a machine.  They only take a couple of minutes to configure and boot. It's better to keep a dozen simple systems than one complex one!
> Yes, but they also take up new IP Addresses.

Not all services are outward facing, only a small minority.  Those can 
be proxied.

> That's not bad if they only need to be accessed on the LAN, but what about zones that need to be accessed with static IP Addresses on the web?  We have to pay the phone company extra for those.
>
> Or am I missing something here?  (And that's entirely possible!)

Something like http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html maybe?

-- 
Ian.