From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 20 17:53:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA07198 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 17:53:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tower.ti.com (tower.ti.com [192.94.94.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA07164 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 17:53:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kf7nn@ti.com) Received: from tilde.csc.ti.com ([157.170.1.149]) by tower.ti.com (8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA07052; Wed, 20 May 1998 19:52:38 -0500 (CDT) Received: from spdc.ti.com (ox.spdc.ti.com [192.226.26.51]) by tilde.csc.ti.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA11266; Wed, 20 May 1998 19:52:34 -0500 (CDT) Received: from epcot.spdc.ti.com (epcot [192.226.26.53]) by spdc.ti.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA23988; Wed, 20 May 1998 19:52:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: from shipleydt (dhcp22-097.spdc.ti.com [192.226.22.97]) by epcot.spdc.ti.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA10043; Wed, 20 May 1998 19:52:33 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <35637B08.2221@ti.com> Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 19:53:28 -0500 From: george X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Mitchell CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail question References: <199805191623.RAA03559@wax.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > | 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