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That's why I mentioned he needs to go back and read up a little more on TCP/IP, NAT, routing, internal vs. external nets, etc. That and http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html KnightMB wrote: > Do you mean from the WAN to the LAN port 21 or do you mean everyone > can go outbound Port 21 to the Internet? > > If you are trying to host many machine services on port 21 behind the > WAN, m0n0wall allows port redirection through the NAT rules. So you > could map port 65001 to port 21 on one computer, port 65002 to port 21 > on another computer, etc. > > The name resolution of the DNS Forwarder only works for the LAN. This > is useful in getting around the "can't get to NAT WAN service from > LAN" issue I often see listed. As far as using it to resolve those to > different ports on the WAN or LAN, name resolution only does IP, not > the port number, so you would not be able to use the DNS forwarder in > that way. > > As it stands, you don't need to run the same service on a different > port number for every machine. > > Thanks, > Michael > > Nick Smith wrote: >> is there a way to open say port 21 for my entire network, not just >> machine? then if i do ssh computer1.domain.com or computer2.domain.com >> it will actually go to each machine? as it stands now it seems i can >> only open the port per ip, so unless i run ssh on different ports on >> all the different machines which would be a real pain, now i have to >> ssh into computer1.domain.com and then from computer1 ssh into >> computer2. is it possible to open it up for the entire network and >> use host name resolution via the dns forwarder in the m0n0wall? >> >> thanks >> >> Nick >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch >> For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch -- Alex Neuman van der Hans N&K Technology Consultants Tel. +507 214-9002 - http://nkpanama.com/ |