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At 03:18 PM 6/24/2004, Joey Morin wrote: >This one time, at band camp, Adam Nellemann said: > > > Joey Morin wrote: > > > > > from http://m0n0.ch/wall/docbook/faq-lannat.html > > > > > > "Why isn't it possible to access NATed services by the public IP > > > address from LAN?" > > > > > > this is perhaps only a minor annoyance, but when i moved to m0n0wall i > > > lost this ability. behind my inexq this was no problem. can anyone > > > explain why this is not possible to implement? is it a limitation, or > > > by design? > > > > While probably not quite what you are after, you could use DNS overrides > > to map some (actual or imaginary) domain names to the corrosponding > > internal IPs, and thus be able to access any NAT'ed services from the > > LAN in much the same way you would from the WAN. > >my WAN link is pppoe, and the ip changes frequently. currently i use an >smtp client on an internal box to periodically send an empty message to an >external shell account, where a running perl script extracts the ip from >the mail headers and dynamically builds an index.html containing a >redirect to the current WAN IP, and plunks it in the public_html tree on >that shell account. this let's me give out a named URL to folks who i >want to grant access to my web server. this url never changes, but since >the index.html is rebuilt whenever the WAN IP changes, the web server is >always reachable (longest down time is determined by the smtp client send >interval plus the perl script polling interval. usually no more than 5 >minutes). > >yes, this is ugly, but i don't have money right now for dyn dns! that's >also why i'm using a pc cobbled together from curb-side garbage day finds, >and running a free firewall on it :) Unless you're generating an enormous amount of traffic, zoneedit.com is free for up to five domains. For that matter so is dyndns.org if you use one of their domains (40+ choices if I remember correctly), which unless you already have your own domain shouldn't be a big issue. ---------------------------------------- Good, Fast, Cheap... Pick any two ---------------------------------------- |