[rt-users] Tricky situation with rt-mailgate

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 19:58, Tuc at Beach House wrote:
> > My understanding is that rt-mailgate should be given an URL.  Can you just
> > give the URL of a specific box rather than the load balanced URL (I am assuming
> > the stuff behind the load balancer have distinct IP addresses)?  This would
> > break load-balancing of RT when it comes through the mailgate, but should
> > allow mailgate to access the RT web site.  Can probably hack the mailgate
> > code to alternate the specific box IPs as well for the URL.
> >
> 	My problem with this is that RT's on a VH, so I can't call it 
> directly by IP. (Boy, aren't I just a problem child!)

An entry in /etc/hosts on the calling machine lets you keep the
name in the URL but hit the IP of your choice.

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com