Routing by hostname?

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I was reading this post:

and I was intrigued by [quote=“hal2100, post:1, topic:5104”]
Forwarding and all works great from the outside
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and I know how to set this up using Apache to redirect different hostnames to different web servers, but the way I read this is that I could have hosts in my NAT-ed network be accessed by different hostnames from outside my network.

For instance, is it possible to do something like.

mydomain.com - outside address with various port forwards
mail.mydomain.com - forward all packets to 192.168.1.10
sip.mydomain.com - forward all packets to 192.168.1.12
gaming.mydomain.com - forward all packets to 192.168.1.25

Setting up the DNS on the outside is pretty trivial, but I don’t understand how I would set this up at the router or if it’s even possible. It seems like it could be something that’s possible.

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If I understand you correctly, overriding Omnia’s DNS via hosts-like hints does solve this (linked on the forum), e.g. /etc/kresd/hints containing:

192.168.1.10 mail.mydomain.com
192.168.1.12 sip.mydomain.com
192.168.1.25 gaming.mydomain.com
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No (I think) the question is from outside the network.

You can only do this for protocol like HTTP, HTTPS, OpenSSL. For other protocol it would need a way to determine the hostname within the packet which is not possible.

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Thanks, I missed an important word again. Here there’s a suggestion to install nginx on Omnia: Přesměrování domén různých řádů na různé servery - #6 by Peterekcz - SW pomoc [CZ] - Turris forum