Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 19:53:28 -0500 From: george <kf7nn@ti.com> To: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail question Message-ID: <35637B08.2221@ti.com> References: <199805191623.RAA03559@wax.dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
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well it would be nice to run elm on the native machine to read your mail instead of having to telnet over to the registered machine. right now i just send the mail as uasual and the router takes care of al the rest. Scott Mitchell wrote: > > George Vagner said: > >i have 3 machines on my internal net and 1 router but i do not have > >seperate ip addresses for each of these machines i only have 1 > >ip address that is registered so if i write a mail message on any of the other > >machines it is uasually rejected because they cant be looked up. > > > >is there a way to make the registered machine foward mail to the unregistered > >machines and provide a reply back to any queries for the unregistered > >machines? > > > >i am not sure if this is called spoofing or not.. > > > > > >here is what i thought might work.... > > > >making registered machine gateway=YES in rc.conf > >editing /etc/hosts to include these machines (already do) > >editing /etc/aliases to point to these machines somehow. > > > >what do you suggest. if possible? > > The registered machine (I assume this sits between your private net and the > rest of the world) should also be running natd or something similar to hide > your unregistered addresses. > > Set up sendmail on the other machines to do nothing but forward to the > gateway machine. There is a 'null' config in the sendmail cf tree that > will do this for you. You will probably want to set some/all of the > masquerading options on the gateway sendmail so that all mail goes out as > from that machine. > > People outside of your private net will of course only be able to mail to > your gateway box, as they can't tell that the other machines exist. Was > there a particular need for mail to be delivered to individual machines? > > You really don't want any of your private IP's or unregistered names > leaking out into the Internet at large. It tends to irritate people. > > HTH, > > Scott. > > -- > =========================================================================== > Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just > <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" > QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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