[OpenIndiana-discuss] New Zone User Questions

[DormitionSkete@hotmail.com]

On Feb 5, 2013, at 12:11 AM, Andrej Javoršek wrote:

> "Or am I missing something here?  (And that's entirely possible!)"
> 
> You are not gonna like my answer since it ads even more complexity but you
> can (theoretically) use single IP and have a lot of globally available
> services in different physical or virtual computers by using NAT and port
> mapping techniques or reverse proxying requests from internet into your
> NATed LAN.
> eg. Google's enormous cloud (www.google.com) is seen (from my location)  by
> only 5  v4 and 1 v6 IP address.
> 
> Regards Andrej

You know what?  You're right!  (Of course.)

And I even know how to do port forwarding - on a router, anyway.  

Well, maybe...

The router that's hooked up to our modem is using One-to-One NAT.  So, our router has the first IP address of our block of five.  The other four addresses point to servers.  

So, do I understand this right - theoretically, I could take one or more of those IP Addresses that are pointing to servers, and attach another router in its place, and do port forwarding for that IP Address to that server and multiple zones?  

If that would work, theoretically, that might be within my limited networking abilities.  If I was to get into proxies, I'd have to learn a whole lot more about networking, and I'm not sure I want to do that!  It'd probably save me a whole lot of grief if I did learn more about networking, but I have enough going on in my head without that.

Thanks for the suggestions, Andrej and Ian.  I appreciate it.  

It adds more complexity, but it's worth thinking about.

And I shudder to ask this, but this could also be done within the server itself, too, without buying extra routers, right?