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Date:      Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:29:16 -0500
From:      Brian Bobowski <bbobowski@gmail.com>
To:        Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Firewall/Web server difficulties
Message-ID:  <43F097BC.80308@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <43F095E6.2070901@meijome.net>
References:  <43F0935B.4020901@gmail.com> <43F095E6.2070901@meijome.net>

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Norberto Meijome wrote:

>Brian Bobowski wrote:
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>>All right. I've got my firewall up and running, and my workstation can
>>get almost anywhere it needs to just fine.
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>you dont' say if you are using ipfw, ipf , pf....
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Sure I do. IPFW; mentioned lower down.

>>I can access it by directly referencing the private-interface IP, but if
>>my workstation tries to get to the public-interface IP, nothing happens.
>>Can't even ping it. ICMP and port 80 TCP should both be allowed from
>>anywhere... but they're not getting through.
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>(Assuming all your rules are ok...) AFAIK, you can't access the external
> interface of a NAT'ed system from the LAN side. Simply use a DNS inside
>that resolves the name you try to access to the internal interface
>instead of the external. this is FAQ, i think...
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I'm poking at that now, yes. I had difficulty getting it to work with 
virtual hosts... but I can at least reference it by the private-side IP 
address and get places.

>>(So far as I can tell, it's
>>not just me who's unable to access these.)
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>meaning others in your LAN? or others in the WAN?
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WAN. People have tried pinging and browsing, with no success.

>>Does NAT simply not allow for servers to be running on the machine that
>>performs it? I know it's not ideal, but I don't have the room to install
>>another machine even if that were in my budget. I've set up NAT and IPFW
>>per the directions in the handbook, and aside from that one difficulty,
>>everything seems to be working.
>>
>>Please reply off the list.
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>CCing the list for the benefit of everyone else :)
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>Beto
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Hope the clarifications help,
-BB



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