On 11.11.2003, at 09:27, Josh Davis-Ryan wrote:

> BUT
> in the lan, when i point my browser to http://sivad77.ath.cs:8002 <- 
> it does not work
> i have to goto http://192.168.1.5:8002 <- this is pretty annoying
> it would be nice to use my dynamic name :) - maybe i didnt set 
> something up right :S

Nah, that's because of the way ipnat works. It's not possible to make 
this work without some ugly kludges, unfortunately. BTW, many 
commercial firewalls have this problem, too. There's another solution, 
though: you can use m0n0wall's DNS forwarder as the DNS server for your 
internal machines and then set up an override record for your ath.cs 
name (with 192.168.1.5 as the address) - voilà, split DNS.

> bugs:
> *i changed the mac address on the wan card (very nice feature), and 
> the internet stopped working, as when you setup the router u select 
> which card does what via the mac address in the console.......changing 
> the mac address didnt update this automatically, and i spent 30mins 
> wondering why my net went down :(

Uhm... no, the interfaces are not assigned to a function by means of 
their MAC address, but by their FreeBSD interface name. Look at the 
config.xml and you'll see what I mean. The MAC addresses are only 
displayed for identification purposes. There must be another reason.

- Manuel