From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 15 5: 1:13 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 D1E3737B401 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 05:01:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29AFF43F93 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 05:01:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53) with ESMTP id <200303151301100530033p12e>; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 13:01:10 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.8/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2FD19HI042396; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 08:01:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.8/8.12.6/Submit) id h2FD182d042393; Sat, 15 Mar 2003 08:01:08 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: Matthew Ryan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Port Forwarding FreeBSD 4.7_Release References: From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 15 Mar 2003 08:01:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <44llzg4wdn.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Matthew Ryan 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