[Labs-l] saving up some public IP by using a common proxy?

Ryan Lane rlane32 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 2 18:36:05 UTC 2012


On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Forrest F. Fuqua
<forrest.fuqua at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've done this is nginx, you can have a system where its like
>
> http://commonproxy.wikilabs.org/192.168.0.1/
> and it would do a proxypass to the ip address in the field over a predefined
> port, or you could do /192.168.0.1/<port>/
>

Hm. Yeah, this is doable. Another possibility is to use * DNS, and
pass based on host header; so:

ryansinstance.commonproxy.wikilabs.org -> ryansinstance.pmtpa.wmflabs

This is likely easier than setting up a per-project proxy service...

Anyone want to have a go at this?

- Ryan



More information about the Labs-l mailing list