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    Port forwarding on DNS name bases

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      devnull
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      Hi,

      ok I was wondering if someone would clarify something for me. Now on my current setup of pfs some users need access to their RDPs. Now since there's more than one I needed to setup different ports for different users. Now once I saw that they had setup the DNS in a way so that the main domain (ext.example.net) shows to an IP and then set it up so that if you connected to a DNS name (pc1.ext.example.net) it would show to the same IP but forward the RDP to the internal IP of PC1 and if you connected to pc2.ext.example.net you got PC2 all on the same port. Now I no it has something to do with reverse DNS or something.
      Is something like this possible on PFS or do I need to keep it like it is now each PC on a different port?

      Thanks for the information and I hope explained it clearly enough.

      Bye

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        sullrich
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        You would need to port forward different ports for each person.

        Then tell the person to connect to

        $IPADDRESS:PORT

        IE: 1.2.3.4:3390
        1.2.3.4:3391

        There is no way to hook DNS into this, they are completely separate beasts.

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          devnull
          last edited by

          Hey,

          thanks for the reply.
          I know that it's a different system but I've seen the thing in action. And I have no idea on how it works, that's why I asked.  :)
          I figure that even if it exists it probably doesn't work with PFS. :)

          Any thanks for the helping.

          Bye

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