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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
