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Re: Accessing director functionality from director.

To: "Jesse W. Asher" <jasher1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Accessing director functionality from director.
Cc: <lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 16:42:12 +0300 (EEST)
        Hello,

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Jesse W. Asher wrote:

> This may sound a little strange, but I have proxy server running on port
> 8080 on my director which is running LVS-NAT to some web servers (port
> 80) behind it.  I'd like to be able to have the proxy server to behave
> like a real life client and talk directly to port 80 on the director and
> be able to contact one of the web servers on the backend.  The problem
> appears to be that because the packets are originating locally, I get a
> "connection refused".  I suspect its because the packets aren't
> transversing any of the rules because they are originating from the
> local box, but I don't know for sure.
>
> The same thing happens if I just telnet to port 80 on the director.  The
> question is, is there a way to get it to work so that I can access port
> 80 from the director itself?  Thanks!!

        We don't know for such way. The director and the real servers
can't be clients that are served from the virtual service. Until
someone finds a solution that breaks this axiom you can't make it
to work.

Regards

--
Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>



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