On Mercredi 02 Mai 2001 19:54, you wrote :
> My local machine is the Web Server. I am running LM 8.0 on my local
> computer and it is running my home web site. I can get to it if I type
> "http://localhost"; or if I type the internal IP address. I can't get to it
> if I type "http://www.mydomain.org"; from my computer. However, if I go out
> to the local library and use their computer to type
> "http://www.mydomain.org"; I can get my website up. If I'm on a computer on
> the internal network I should be able to use the registered domain name of
> the Firewall. It should send my internal requests out to the DNS server on
> the internet which then turns the packets around to the firewall destined
> on port 80. Port 80 on the firewall then should forward the packets to my
> web server behind it.
>
> It does this if I'm logged on to a computer outside the firewall on the
> internet. It does not do this if I try to call up the web server useing
> it's url or the firewalls IP address from an internal computer.
>
We've got the exact same problem here: forwarding from the outside works,
but forwarding from the masqueraded network does not work (I can imagine this
to be very tricky in ip frames handling code !).
Internally you should use the local ip address of your web server, or set up
an internal dns for your internal hosts only, to avoid going through the
firewall and back (masquerading a local connexion to port-forward it back
might be a bit too much).
Regards,
Your faithful firewall team :-)
