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Date:      Sat, 5 Feb 2005 13:54:23 +0100
From:      "Gelsema, Patrick" <gelsemap@superhero.nl>
To:        "'Cristian Salan'" <cristian.salan@gmail.com>, "'Gelsema, Patrick'" <gelsema@superhero.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: natd or firewall problem?
Message-ID:  <000401c50b81$d1a6bf60$0a4dca0a@superhero.nl>
In-Reply-To: <809d83890502050450454c9cc@mail.gmail.com>

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Thats right, you can do the following:
Put the ip-address with its FQDn (www.webserverwhatever.com) in every hosts
file (taken its windows) or in its hosts file on freebsd. Or you run an
internal DNS with an internal zone for your domain whilst running on the
internet the external zone.

Regards,

Patrick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cristian Salan [mailto:cristian.salan@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 1:51 PM
> To: Gelsema, Patrick
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: natd or firewall problem?
> 
> 
> > > Hello dear list,
> > >
> > > I have one FreeBSD router in front of the internal 
> network. Now I've 
> > > installed another FreeBSD box which must be the www sever. I've 
> > > managed to redirect the port 80 at the router and the web 
> server is 
> > > visible to the outside world. But the problem is now at the other 
> > > internal workstations which are unable to browse the web server.
> > >
> > > Please enlighten me,
> > > Cristian Salan
> 
> On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 12:42:13 +0100 (CET), Gelsema, Patrick 
> <gelsema@superhero.nl> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > IN order to enlighten you we need some more information. 
> Sounds to me 
> > you could be having issues with internal/external DNS and 
> > ip-addresses. In other words, you are querying your www 
> server from a 
> > dns and is getting the Internet ip back instead of the lan 
> ip. Can you 
> > connect to your www server with ip?
> 
> I can only connect using the internal ip address. Otherwise, 
> yes, when querying for the name I get the external IP 
> address. There is no DNS server on this lan. Is this the problem?
> 
> Cristian Salan
> 



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