From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 14 16:46:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A41ED37B401 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:46:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (mta03-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B898E43FA3 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:46:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@overdose.com) Received: from overdose.com ([80.0.158.31]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with ESMTP id <20030315004618.IUKN11246.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@overdose.com> for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 00:46:18 +0000 Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 00:47:51 +0000 Subject: Re: Port Forwarding FreeBSD 4.7_Release Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) From: Matthew Ryan To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <44isulpjvx.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 12:13 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> Fact is, natd _only_ redirects from the interface is was told to bind >> to. >> I'm not exactly sure why the packets don't route out and back in when >> you >> try it from inside, but they don't ;( so you always need to test it >> from >> the external interface. > > The reason they don't "route out" is that they are addressed to the > router, so it doesn't bother to forward them outside. > Ok, I understand, this does present me with a bit of a problem however, accessing my mail server from home for example. Can you think of a workaround? Ta Matthew Ryan Matt@overdose.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message