On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 11:49:28AM +0200, Johan Hendriks wrote:
> Op zaterdag 18 april 2015 heeft Bob McClure Jr <[email protected]> het
> volgende geschreven:
> 
> > I am a pfsense newbie.  After my homebrew firewall crashed, a
> > colleague recommended pfsense, so I went for it.  I'm running the
> > latest update of pfsense.
> >
> > I have a pretty basic three-piece setup -- WAN, LAN, and OPT1 which is
> > my DMZ for a web, mail, and DNS server.  I have set up the NAT rules
> > for all the stuff from the WAN to get to OPT1.  I learned much later
> > than I should have that, by default, LAN can get to anything on WAN
> > and OPT1, and OPT1 can get to anything on WAN.  That is correct, isn't
> > it?
> >
> > The problem is that when I go from my workstation on the LAN to our
> > web server on OPT1, I am forced from an HTTP connection to HTTPS.
> > I've done a bunch of web searching and docs perusing, but I can't
> > figure out how to fix that.  Everything else seems to be working
> > fine, including outside connections to the web server.
> >
> > Any clues for me?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --
> > Bob McClure, Jr.
> 
> You need to punch some holes from the lan to the dmz and from the dmz to
> the lan.
> You can be very specific about that.

As I mentioned above, based on my searching of the Net, NAT can get to
OPT1 (my DMZ) by default, and that is true for all other services.

> Like dmz may go to ipadres af workstation and nothing else. You can set it
> as tight as you want.

As I understand it, OPT1 (DMZ) cannot initiate a connection to the
LAN, and that's as it should be.

> And maybe you need a split dns setup to tell the wokstation that if it
> needs to go to www.yoursite.com that it needs to go to the internal dmz
> ipadres.

I'll have a look at that.

> Regards.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
[email protected]             http://www.bobcatos.com
Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy;
without holiness no one will see the Lord.
Hebrews 12:14 NIV
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