On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 16:32 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote:
> On 08/29/2012 03:56 PM, Arthur Dent wrote:
> > On Wed, 2012-08-29 at 15:31 -0500, Dale Dellutri wrote:
> >> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Arthur Dent

[snip]

> > 
> 
> I think you are getting in a loop as it doesn't appear that you are NATing 
> incoming traffic.  So what happens is that the traffic
> from, say, 192,168.2.3 goes to example.org but the ip info is not nat'd so 
> the mail server on 192.168.2.2 answers directly to
> 192.168.2.3 but the client is expecting the data to come back from 
> example.org so you get a nasty circular routing issue.  You
> should probably nat the incoming traffic to 192.168.2.2 over your router so 
> it looks like it's coming from the router and get's
> routed back to the router.  Then the router can redirect the traffic back to 
> where it needs to go.
> 
> Kevin

Thanks!

OK - That seems to describe the symptoms I am seeing. I have two
questions:

1) Why did I never run into this before (I have run every version of
Fedora since before it was fedora - although as a server only since
about Fedora 8) Has something changed?

2) So what do I have to do? I have heard the term NAT before, but never
needed to do anything about it. Do I need to set up an iptables rule? If
so what exactly? Can I use system-config-firewall (my favourite way to
set up the firewall as I am largely clueless when it come to networking
- as you can see!).

Thanks again

Mark

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