RedHost

Tiny hostname based http redirector service.

You have a small local network and frequently need to access certain services within that network. Of course you already have a local DNS server, however many of your little services don't run on port 80, you are too lazy to set up a proper proxy and you want to be able to access them via multiple names anyway.

RedHost to the rescue!

Example

# setup
pip install -r requirements.txt

# configure (see below)
nano red.yaml

# run
sudo python redhost.py

Example configuration which does several redirects:

portRedirects:
  "photo.svc" : "8080"
  "music.svc" : "8081"
  "video.svc" : "8082"


redirects:
  "storage.lan" : "http://192.168.1.10:8080"

Such a configuration is particularly useful if you set up your dns server to proxy all *.svc requests to the host which runs RedHost. In this case the host running RedHost also runs a lot of other services, therefore we only need the portRedirects which will only change the requested port and leave the hostname as is.

If you then request http://photo.svc/ in your browser you would be redirected to http://photo.svc:8080/.

If you want "full" redirects simply put it in the redirects section.

Example dnsmasq config

To get the *.svc redirect as described above add this line to your dnsmasq config:

address=/.svc/192.168.1.2

This would resolve any .svc addresses you request always to the 192.168.1.2 address.

(c) 2016 Paul Klingelhuber