On Wednesday 21 November 2001 06:20 am, Florin wrote: > Joseph Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 2) In the event that a http server should work properly behind my SNF, > > how are request from my private network to the external IP address of my > > SNF on port 80 going to be handled. Will it handle a internal client > > browsing my webserver when the DNS will resolve to the external address. > > It seems the traffic will go out and be send back in, but will it be > > masqurated or just redirected, or will it not work at all?? > > that depends on your dns configuration. If an external IP address will > correspond to your web server address then it will go out and then come > back in ... you should put a internal IP address in the dns. If its a host DNS I don't think you want to do that. I'm not sure what's the best way but I put hosted hosts/domains in hosts (hosts.conf = order hosts,bind) with their local IP#s. Apache virtual hosts also use local IP#s when inside, serving the outside is masqueraded.
