This is the firewall which is blocking it. This is anti-spoofing. The previous suggestion of
mine for the custom rule is the only one which I now of to allow this. The only alternative
to this which I can think of is to setup a second machine which is connected to the
internet, have it at as your primary gateway to the Internet for your internal network, and
then this will masquerade all of your internal network and they will be able to reach the
web server.
I would love if someone else could provide anothere means of handling this. I have a
problem even with the rule I setup. I cannot access a chat applet on my external facing
IP from my internal network. It is running on port 6000 and the firewall blocks it with anti-
spoofing rules.
Jim
01/13/02 10:22:57 AM, FX Fraipont
I'm not sure if this is your problem, but...
The IP address used by the outside world to access your web server is not the same one you need to use to access the server from your internal network.
Your ISP assigns one of its IP addresses to the network interface (on your Linux box) used to connect you to the internet. Your Linux box is acting as a gateway/router to the machines on your internal network and is reached via an internal IP address, something like 192.168.0.1. This is the address your four Windows systems use as the gateway IP in their network configuration. Try using the that same IP address to reach your web server from the Windows machines on your internal network.
You understand my problem exactly.
Indeed, if I point the browser on any internal network machine to the IP of my machine (server/firewall/router: 192.168.0.99), I can access my website.
But I don't understand why the request from these internal network machines don't get masqueraded, reach www.dyndns.org, and are redirected to the current Ip of my machine. Shouldn't it work like this?
Thanks
FX
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