Date: 15 Mar 2003 08:01:08 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: Matthew Ryan <matt@overdose.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port Forwarding FreeBSD 4.7_Release Message-ID: <44llzg4wdn.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <C03BA210-567F-11D7-8E90-0030654886A6@overdose.com> References: <C03BA210-567F-11D7-8E90-0030654886A6@overdose.com>
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Matthew Ryan <matt@overdose.com> writes: > 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? Sure. Use the inside IP address of the server. You can run your own DNS server to make this easy. I do this with my home network; I run it on the same machine as the mail server, and the DNS isn't accessible from outside the home network. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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