Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 22:14:37 -0600 (CST) From: Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Benjamin Ossei <ben@cahostnet.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't hit my own website from behind firewall Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102102211200.3971-100000@cody.jharris.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102102204370.3971-100000@cody.jharris.com>
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On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Nick Rogness wrote: [snip] > > > > That's really not a good idea. > > Agreed. > > > > > If you really want to do this, you should run another instance of > > natd(8) for the internal interface and not try to use the one aliasing > > for the external one. > > Or setup your DNS to point to the inside IP instead of the outside > alias address. [Clarification from the previous message] Your internal nameserver could be setup to point to your website via the inside IP address. Your outside nameserver could still point to your outside IP. Still, this problem seems to happen all of the time when dealing with nat...and has accounted for several mail threads resulting in the same question and answer. Maybe this should go into a FAQ. Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> - Keep on routing in a Free World... "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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