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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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