From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 23: 5:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C916737B724 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 23:05:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com ([64.6.211.149]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Thu, 17 Aug 2000 23:04:24 -0700 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by 149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA90738; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 23:05:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 23:05:28 -0700 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Chris Silva Cc: "SILVER, MICHAEL A" , "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD behind a firewall Message-ID: <20000817230528.H28027@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from bitsurfer@mediaone.net on Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:00:45PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:00:45PM -0500, Chris Silva wrote: [snip] > In my case, I have yet to see how (examples) how your able to let boxen on > the inside of your network actually AUTH to ANY IRC server. The problem is that the hosts inside your network are not auth'ing /out,/ but that the IRC server is trying to auth /in/ to them. Think about it, the IRC server just sees the public address of your (outermost) NAT machine. How does the auth request from the server find its way back in to the IRC client? You need to have some application layer proxy, firewall, or natd that talks IRC. Dunno about that. Some dummy IRC proxy? Have you searched the FreeBSD mail archive? [snip] -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message