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Date:      Mon, 22 Nov 1999 18:40:07 -0500
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
To:        Capriotti <capriotti@geocities.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NATd and redirect_port
Message-ID:  <19991122184007.11316@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19691231220000.00995bf0@pop.mpcnet.com.br>; from Capriotti on Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 01:07:53AM -0200
References:  <3.0.32.19691231220000.00995bf0@pop.mpcnet.com.br>

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On Tuesday, 23 November 1999 at  1:07:53 -0200, Capriotti wrote:
> Hello, all.
>
> We had to remove the NT security hole from its "gateway" position on the
> network, for obvious questions. Of course, iin its place wwe installed
> FreeBSD 3.3-Release.
>
> Problem is that, to keep things going, w/o too much effort for local
> sysadmins, the email still has to be handled by the NT box. Not a big deal.
>
> Problem is: address 206.1.1.1, which was the gateway's, is now the FBSD's.
> Email server was responding to 206.1.1.1
>
> I was trying to use NATd to forward any traffic to ports 25 and 110 to the
> NT box like this:
>
> (called from .../rc.d/nats.sh during boot)
>
> natd -n ed1 -redirect_port 192.16.1.100:25 25
> natd -n ed1 -redirect_port 192.16.1.100:110 110

I believe that you'd be a lot better off with one of these
alternatives:

1.  Run mail on the FreeBSD (definitely what I would choose).
2.  Change the DNS record for your mail server.

Greg
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