[KLUG Members] http switching?

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>Soon, I'll be in a situation where multiple Web servers will be behind a
>single masquerading Linux firewall.

What is the purpose of the multiple web sites?  Will they each host a
diffrent site or are you looking to load balance?

>I'm looking for a program which will run on the firewall, listening on
>port 80 and proxying incoming Web requests to the MASQ'ed servers
>depending on the value of the hostname in the HTTP/1.1 header.

Yes, squid can run in accelerator mode to front end webservers.  But
running it on your firewall seems less than wise.  Is there a reason you
cannot place the web server(s) on the outside of your firewall,  or at
least install a third interface in the firewall and create a DMZ of
sors.

>(Obviously, DNS will point all of these hostnames to the firewall
>machine.)
>Can squid do this?  Apache?  Some other, more obscure utility?

There are many, many http load balancers available.  Just search
freshmeat for "http load balanace".