I am trying to run an SMTP server on a dynamic IP address (and maybe other services later on, e.g., DNS or HTTP)
For this, I would like to redirect traffic via a host (STATIC) which has a static IP address to/from the host (DYNAMIC) with the dynamic IP address. To route the port incoming it seems I can use: DYNAMIC$ ssh -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes -N -R 25:localhost:25 STATIC This also has the advantage that the routing is only active as long as DYNAMIC is up and running with the same IP. So far I haven't found a way to route outgoing SMTP from DYNAMIC via STATIC; I don't want to send mail directly from DYNAMIC as many MTAs block traffic from dynamic IPs. What is a good way to do this? Could route with -T table option or one of pf features rdr-to or nat-to be used? Since DYNAMIC is behind some gateway and has only a local IP address provided by DHCP this doesn't seem to be possible? Moreover, the routing needs to be disabled whenever DYNAMIC is "down" (to avoid potential abuse by whatever host is getting the IP address DYNAMIC had). I hope this makes sense - maybe I'm missing some simple solution? PS: I could use SMTP relaying: run an MTA on STATIC but then the mail could get queued there (which I want to avoid for many reasons). -- Address is valid for this mailing list only, please do not reply to it directly, but to the list.
