Redirection based on port

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Anyone know where I could find software that runs on 2000 machines or is
Perl based I could run with Active Perl on 2000 that will allow redirection
similar to the WebHop that DynDNS.org does? We have several web services
that listen on various ports and I would like to be able to tell users to go
to a simple URL, rather than them having to remember to tack a port number
on the end of a URL.

I guess you could call this DNS 'mapping' in a sense.
 
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: Anyone know where I could find software that runs on 2000 machines or is
: Perl based I could run with Active Perl on 2000 that will allow
redirection
: similar to the WebHop that DynDNS.org does? We have several web services
: that listen on various ports and I would like to be able to tell users to
go
: to a simple URL, rather than them having to remember to tack a port number
: on the end of a URL.
:
: I guess you could call this DNS 'mapping' in a sense.

Why not just use host headers?

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Well, most of the services don't run on actual web servers. They are apps
that generate their own web pages. I suppose I could change the listening
port on them to 80, but this would require a different machine for each app,
something that isn't necessarily needed.

Then again, what would be the possibility of running a single web server
with multiple 'sites' that redirects to each of these apps?
 
: Well, most of the services don't run on actual web servers. They are apps
: that generate their own web pages. I suppose I could change the listening
: port on them to 80, but this would require a different machine for each
app,
: something that isn't necessarily needed.
:
: Then again, what would be the possibility of running a single web server
: with multiple 'sites' that redirects to each of these apps?

The whole idea of host headers is to run multiple sites on a single server
pointing each to a different one. You also don't have to change the port to
80, just specify it in the URL: http://mywebsite:8080/

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