Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I'm having a bit of a problem with my NAT setup here. I've got a machine > running NAT for the rest of the computers on the LAN to get internet > access. The NAT server (bigbrother) forwards ports 143 and 25 (IMAP and > SMTP) to my mail server (gandalf). This works fine for outside > connections, and connecting directly to gandalf works fine internally. > However, if I try to connect to mail.the-love-shack.net from BEHIND the > NAT box, the connection never gets made. Apparently, ports don't get > forwarded from internal connections. This isn't a big problem for the > most part, but it makes accessing my mail from my laptop a pain in the > rear end. Having to open up Evolution and reconfigure the mail settings > each time I leave or come back home is really annoying. The first idea > that comes to mind is coming up with some way to create an entry for > "mail.the-love-shack.net" in my LOCAL Forward Lookup zone that points to > "gandalf" leaving the EXTERNAL entry for mail.the-love-shack.net intact. > Is there any way to do this, or is there a better way to go about > solving this problem? TIA
If you're running bind 9, you can use views for this - the external view points mail.the-love-shack.net to bigbrother, while the internal view points it to gandalf. Richard -- I'm currently looking for work; see my Curriculum Vitae here: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~rhector/cv.html
