"Proc Meminfo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, this quesion only partially pertains to qmail. Can I run qmail,
> bind, and apache from behind a router and still use them as though they
> still had a world readable ip address? (as opposed to 10.x.x.x or 196.x.x.x
> as they are now)
I assume that you mean an address-translating router. They should
mostly work fine, as long as you configure the NAT device properly,
and the NAT device works properly.
One caveat is that qmail can get into a tight loop if DNS indicates it
is where to deliver mail for a domain and qmail doesn't consider that
domain local; normally qmail handles that more gracefully, but in this
case it doesn't realize that the machine it's connecting to is really
itself, so it will keep getting the message, connecting to itself, and
redelivering the message until it sees too many Received: headers
(around 25, I believe) before it bounces the message.
I've run DNS behind a NAT before, but not BIND in particular (take a
serious look at djbdns, it works as well as BIND without the security
risks, and is easier to manage automatically with scripts).
Apache should work just fine; there are no issues that I'm aware of.
-----ScottG.
