Connect public IP from inside - IPTables

Hi,

It seems like I had this working and now it has stopped.

I have a public IP that fowards to an internal IP hosting web services. If
you connect to the IP from the outside everything works fine, but if you try
to connect to this public IP from the inside, it does not work. It seems
like I had this working before. Is there anything else that can be done to
IPTables to allow the packets to go out the firewall, then come back in? I
know the easiest way would be to use internal DNS for this operation, but
the client does not have the abililty right now.

Thanks,
Marv

On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 13:42:00 GMT, "Marv" <marv@somewhere.com> wrote:

Sounds like a dns problem. And the packets don't 'go out the
firewall, then come back in', they need to get directed to the web
host.

Have a look at dnsmasq. It's a simple dns solution.

Dan

>Hi,
>
>It seems like I had this working and now it has stopped.
>
>I have a public IP that fowards to an internal IP hosting web services. If
>you connect to the IP from the outside everything works fine, but if you try
>to connect to this public IP from the inside, it does not work. It seems
>like I had this working before. Is there anything else that can be done to
>IPTables to allow the packets to go out the firewall, then come back in? I
>know the easiest way would be to use internal DNS for this operation, but
>the client does not have the abililty right now.
>
>Thanks,
>Marv
>