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Date:      Sat, 29 Mar 2003 14:29:05 -0800 (PST)
From:      Charlie Schluting <charlie@schluting.com>
To:        jdroflet@canada.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPFW NATD access www server by name from the LAN side ?
Message-ID:  <20030329142619.H58362@spooge.kittenz.pdx.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030329142234.7030.h004.c009.wm@mail.canada.com.criticalpath.net>
References:  <20030329142234.7030.h004.c009.wm@mail.canada.com.criticalpath.net>

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> FreeBSD 4.7 firewall with 3 nics. Public, DMZ, and LAN.
> DNS,Bind is not running here.
> www Public address is redirected to it's DMZ address.
> The www server in the DMZ can be accessed by name from the Internet but
> only by it's private DMZ IP address from the LAN side. Attempt to access
> it by name from the LAN results in a 'page not found'.
>
> When attempting to access the www by name from the LAN side tcpdump
> shows traffic getting to the firewall but not redirected out DMZ nic. So
> it's the firewall answering with the 'page not found'.

Well, actually your web browser is saying that... because it can't find
the page.

> How can I redirect traffic to the WWW server from the LAN side ?
> Thanks, Jay.

This is in the howto I followed (but I don't remember how)... there's
about 5 good ones that can be found via google.
Basically, you need to add a rdr rule to natd, if I remember correctly.



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