From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 19 0:19: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from arachna.com (dnai-216-15-61-88.cust.dnai.com [216.15.61.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BEE7937B401 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:18:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 50161 invoked by uid 1001); 19 Jan 2001 08:23:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 19 Jan 2001 08:23:11 -0000 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:23:11 -0800 (PST) From: Ian Kallen To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: accessing an outside IP from inside a NAT net Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'd like a hand figuring out how to access resources on the internal side of a NAT net from within it without doing something kludgey with DNS. i.e. suppose I run natd with a configuration like this: # begin /etc/natd.conf use_sockets same_ports port 8668 deny_incoming no log redirect_port tcp 10.0.0.128:80 206.169.18.10:80 # end /etc/natd.conf Now if the DNS for the web server www.foo.com running on 10.0.0.128 directs a browser on the 10.0.0.0 net to 206.169.18.10, it doesn't get routed back to 10.0.0.128; it just hangs (I'm acutally not sure what's happening there, the connction never succeeds). Is there a nice way to handle this case without running a dummy DNS just for the 10.0.0.0 internal net? thanks, -Ian -- Ian Kallen | AIM: iankallen | efax: (415) 354-3326 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message