-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Rich C hath spake thusly: > I have found this to be the case with my setup, but I thought it was > due to my SMC router. When I set up a virtual host in the router to > route http port 80 to my internal machine (192.168.1.x) port 80, the web > site is NOT visible from inside the network, but it IS visible to people > outside.
I believe what causes this is that the router forwards the source IP and port (that of the client) to the virtual host as-is (i.e. it does not NAT the client). Since the IP address is internal, the server sends the traffic to it directly, rather than back through the router. The client is expecting a reply from www.myhost.com, but the return traffic appears to come from 192.168.x.x instead of www.myhost.com, so the IP stack throws it out. If you want to test it from inside your network, you can use an open proxy on someone else's network. If you don't know of any (I don't), then try surfing to it with anonymizer.com. I can't test it easily here, but I believe that will work. - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8qeT5djdlQoHP510RAv4iAJ9EJx/hNVWsVoHHg8Hv5mq29WVD0wCfW+0w DWcTYltpAtggaKp79VLX4Sw= =Uga8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
