[ale] internal net routing

[Geoffrey]

Benjamin Dixon wrote:
> I've got a smoothwall box doing NAT at the office, behind which is running
> a web server and various other services on different boxen. From the
> outside, access to the service is fine, you can go to myserver.com and get
> the website etc etc. But from the inside, if I got to myserver.com,
> nothing happens. I did a traceroute on it and noticed the smoothwall
> router is where it stops, one hop, but no connection. This is a problem
> I've run into before but never bothered figuring out until now. I'm sure
> its an ipchains or routing issue but a search on deja was fruitless. Any
> pointers?

Typically, this type of connectivity is blocked because your firewall is 
blocking local ip addresses.  That is to stop folks from spoofing the 
local ip to get it.  If you put an entry into your /etc/hosts file for 
that server, you should be able to get there without it going to dns.


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