Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 15:15:41 +0400 From: Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com> To: Roman Kouzmenko <roman@elance.ch> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD server behind a firewall with nat Message-ID: <b7052e1e05070504151cfc1f9f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <0F6AE12F69D1854B9098F77A268ED1302551@hyperion.elance.ch> References: <0F6AE12F69D1854B9098F77A268ED1302551@hyperion.elance.ch>
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On 7/5/05, Roman Kouzmenko wrote: ... > Now I need to put it on the Internet, so that the developers can take > control over it (ssh, ftp). The problem is that at the moment when I > activate one-to-one nat on my hardware firewall for this machine, the > services stop working and behave strangely (for example, if I connect to > the box using ssh, it prompts for the login and nothing else happens, > ftp doesn't work either). If I try to reboot, sendmail doesn't start at > all (it just hangs, so I have to hit ^C to stop the script). ... sendmail probably does not hang but just tries to resolve a name via DNS that apparently is not working. It should continue in a few minutes if you wait that long. What hardware firewall are you using? Is it possible to attach your server to the Internet directly, without using a firewall in the middle? --=20 Dmitry "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"
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