Matthew Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Saturday, March 15, 2003, at 12:13  am, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> 
> >> Fact is, natd _only_ redirects from the interface is was told to
> >> bind to.
> >> I'm not exactly sure why the packets don't route out and back in
> >> when you
> >> try it from inside, but they don't ;( so you always need to test it
> >> from
> >> the external interface.
> >
> > The reason they don't "route out" is that they are addressed to the
> > router, so it doesn't bother to forward them outside.
> >
> Ok, I understand, this does present me with a bit of a problem
> however, accessing my mail server from home for example. Can you think
> of a workaround?

Sure.  Use the inside IP address of the server.  You can run your own
DNS server to make this easy.  I do this with my home network; I run
it on the same machine as the mail server, and the DNS isn't
accessible from outside the home network.  

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