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pepito
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Oct 28, 2022
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How to tell nginx to use a forward proxy to reach a specific destination

Hello. I accidentally closed my previous post, so I recreate this discussion because of the following problem I'm encountering. Here is the situation : I have multiple servers which are in a secu...
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pepito
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Nov 02, 2022

Hello Kevin.

Thank you for your answer.

For the moment, as the server name, I created an alias DNS which target the IP of the nginx server.

<ALIAS DNS OF NGINX SERVER>

If I set the server name as the DNS alias of the gitlab host instead, the servers in the secure zone won't go through nginx, no ? They will contact the DNS servers and they will try to connect directly to gitlab host, which is not possible, because they are in a secure zone without direct access to the gitlab host.

Tell me if I am wrong. How can your solution work please when there are DNS servers involved ?

Best regards.

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LiefZimmerman
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Nov 07, 2022

pepito - your replies were caught in our SPAM system over our weekend. I released them all.
If one of these is best/most complete follow up then you can (or I can) delete the others as duplicates. 
Sorry about the hassle.

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    pepito
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    Nov 08, 2022

    Hello Lief, thank you for your answer.

    I can edit some of my replies to add "duplicated reply to be removed", but for some other replies, I don't have the choice "Edit reply" unfortunately.

    You can delete all of my replies except the one from 04-Nov-2022 16:38.

    Best regards

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      LiefZimmerman
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      Nov 08, 2022

      Thanks pepito - I think I've got it all sorted out. Thanks for your patience and for contributing to our community.

      (Note: The reason you could edit some replies and not others is because there is a time-limit on editing Questions and Replies in our forum. I think the cutoff is 24 calendar hours. This is a feature designed to protect the integrity of a question so MemberA does not edit a question several days after it has been answered in a way that then invalidates any answers.)