> -----Original Message-----
> From: Davide Ferrari [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 5:38 AM
> To: Shorewall Users
> Subject: Re: [Shorewall-users] How to mask the internal ip of my mail
> server
> 
> On Tuesday 14 April 2009 22:12:27 Support CETEMMSA wrote:
> > Virtual Mail Server
> > ETH0: 192.168.10.24
> > GW: 192.168.10.1
> >
> > Shorewall Firewall
> > ETH0: 192.168.10.1
> > ETH1: 212.31.41.116 (IP ALIAS) and 212.31.41.88
> >
> > When my mail server try to delivery an email to any external mail
> server
> > (hotmail, gmail, ...) this external mail server watch the internal IP
> and
> > refuse the mail because this is an internal IP. I need that the
> external
> > server watch the IP 212.31.41.116 instead of 192.168.10.24. I use
> DNAT for
> > any comupter watch the port 80, 25 and 110 from internet (using the
> > 212.31.41.116 IP ADDRESS).
> 
> Mmmh sorry but I don't think that you are experiencing problems with
> externals
> MTAs due to NAT, because your internal MTA is sending mails from a
> public IP
> address (I guess 212.31.41.88 which maybe is your default IP?), cause
> otherwise it wouldn't simply work: remote MTA would have no chance to
> communicate with a reserved private address as 192.168.10.24 is.
> 
> Anyway, maybe what you're looking for is to edit /etc/shorewall/nat and
> put
> something like this:
> 
> 212.31.41.116  eth0:0           192.168.10.24    yes
> 
> which will NAT all the traffic from 192.168.10.24 to appear externally
> as being
> from 212.31.41.116, assuming eth0:0 is the alias you want.
> Obviously you have to open the communication with the correct rule in
> /etc/shorewall/rules
> 
> HTH
> (and if I'm saying nonsenses, list please correct me, thanks :)
> 
> --
> Davide Ferrari
> Atrapalo.com System Administrator
> 

couple of things:

Is real-world DNS resolving your external address, and does it hold an MX 
record?

proxy-arp in this type of basic dual-nic mail server setup worked well for me. 
May want to read up on that.


-C


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