Firewall/NAT

Hi all,

I just can't seem to figure this one out. I've read and re-read this http://doc.m0n0.ch/handbook/faq-lannat.html but my grey matter can't seem to cope.

Basically, I look after a small web dev team who want to view their External public IP from their internal LAN. They currently have various different web sites on ports 8000-8888 which they can view fine internally, but refuses to work on the external IP.

Monowall is set up as the only DNS server. The web server in question is running Ebox (Ubuntu based web admin package similar to webmin).

Any help much appreciated.

c:)

http://doc.m0n0.ch/handbook/nat-inbound.html

last paragraph ...

http://doc.m0n0.ch/handbook/nat-inbound.html

last paragraph ...

So there's no workaround for this?

Would it be possible using something like PFSense instead?

There are some workarounds.

If the web sites have host.domain names, then you can put them along with their internal IP addresses in the LAN machine's hosts file. Then the names will resolve to the internal IP and can be reached.

Or, if you have many machines and modifying many hosts files is not convenient, you can do the same thing in m0n0wall's Services: DNS forwarder. This will require that your LAN machines use the m0n0wall machine as their DNS server.