On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Rich C wrote: > I have found this to be the case with my setup, but I thought it was > due to my SMC router. When I set up a virtual host in the router to > route http port 80 to my internal machine (192.168.1.x) port 80, the web > site is NOT visible from inside the network, but it IS visible to people > outside. We have this same problem here at work with Microsoft's RAS > router software too. I don't know what the mechanism is, but somehow, > outgoing http requests to the same IP address are being ignored instead > of looped back. > > Changing the port to something different either on the inside or outside > does not affect this behavior.
I just set up a SmoothWall box this weekend as a router/firewall for a friend's home net, and saw this same behavior. We took the Mandrake box that had previously shared NAT and server duties and brought it inside, with ports (including 80 & 8080) forwarded from the Smoothie. Local connections to Apache are now only possible by giving the internal IP of the server box; the old URL still works fine from the outside world - and yes, he's on attbi. :) One nice feature of SmoothWall is the inclusion of scripts to update any one of several Dynamic DNS providers automagically - we used the one for dhs.org (and it worked), but they include one for dyndns.org also. As for using the hostname assigned by attbi, I've never had a problem with it before or after the change from MediaOne. It just works. I have a new domain, less than a week old, using DNS from Granite Canyon; I just set up a CNAME record to point to my attbi hostname, and all is well. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apr 2, 2002 ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
