On 01/03/2011 05:43 PM, Tom Eastep wrote:
On 1/3/11 12:03 AM, Harry Lachanas wrote:
  I have site A and site B both running shorewall and are connected to
each other via VPN

Site A runs a Mail server that I wish to move temporarily to B and
configure shorewall to DNAT smtp connections on A ->  B through VPN.

DNAT operates correct and sends the smtp connection to B with no problem

On B however

shorewall complaints ( Correctly in my opinion ) about Martial source
since it receives smtp connection from the net while the default route
on the firewall is not the VPN interface .... ( tun )
Actually, your kernel complains -- Shorewall may have configured it to
do so, however.

Any thoughts on how to overcome this ???

Three ideas:

a) Update your MX record to point to B.
b) Configure multi-ISP on system B so that it has multiple default routes.
c) SNAT the forwarded traffic. I don't recommend this one for a mail
server, though, since you lose the true identity of the sending host.

Thank's Tom your opinion is reliable as a 100$ bill !

a) ... n/a second site B has a dynamic ip address.

b) ... Thought about it but seemed quite a dirty trick .... + the mess , shorewall on site B runs on a openvz server so go figure.

c) ... Not a chance .... too much spam around the net today.

Thanks again,
Harry.



Attachment: smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers
to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, 
should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database 
without downtime or disruption
http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl
_______________________________________________
Shorewall-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users

Reply via email to