[rescue] an idea...

[George Adkins]

a web server (apache for example) is capable of identifying the target url of 
the browser looking at it (a-la virtual domains), right?

how about an ssh gateway which would receive the connection intended for a 
machine on a private (RFC1918) network (via external DNS CNAME records for 
the target machine pointing at the gateway) and then tunnel the connection on 
to the target machine (RFC1918 address, obtained from either a config file or 
an internal split DNS server)

would the SSH client need to be modified to get it to pass on the target 
hostname?

any comments?  Ideas?