Beginner question about DNS (server1.mydomain.com, server2.mydomain.com)
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I'm aware that you can set a DNS override - or something along those lines - so you can use the server name rather than the IP for the local network. However, what I want to do as well is to set it up so that from the internet, I can type in 'server1.mydomain.com, fileserver.mydomain.com, minecraft.mydomain.com etc) and each will connect to each different internal server, complete with full port forwarding.
This is what I mean:
'myfirewall.mydomain.com(:80 or :443)' in a web browser will go to the pfSense WebGUI.
'myfirewall.mydomain.com(:22)' for firewall SSH.
'myserver.mydomain.com(:80 or :443)' will go to the server WebGUI.
'myserver.mydomain.com(:22) for server SSH.
'computer1.mydomain.com(:3389)' for computer 1 RDP
… and so on, but so I don't need to set lots of port forwards for each server.I can't find anything yet that fully answers this, but I'm sure it is possible do make it happen.
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That is not possible to do on a single IP for almost any other protocol but HTTP. By the time a client hits your firewall, you firewall has no idea what hostname they used to get there.
To do it with HTTP on port 80, you can use a package like mod_security which can redirect based on hostname, because that is supported in the HTTP protocol.
Other protocols don't (including HTTPS, mostly) don't have a way to distinguish based on hostname, so you can only have one port forwarded per IP address.