[Gllug] Apache running only on LAN

[Andy Farnsworth]

The router/NAT is acting as a firewall between the internet and your 10.
network so it is fairly difficult unless you have an outside port mapped to
your local machine.  One thing to consider is that while the 10. network
(and the 192.168. network) are not supposed to be routed on the internet,
many of the routers are not actually configured to block them.  I have seen
many ISPs routing private network packets that should not be.  However, your
local router/NAT device should be blocking them.

MAIH...

Andy Farnsworth
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-----Original Message-----
From: gllug-admin at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-admin at linux.co.uk]On Behalf
Of Garry Heaton
Sent: March 26 2003 14:01
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: [Gllug] Apache running only on LAN


I've just installed ADSL with a router/NAT to 3 local machines (2
Mandrake, 1 XP Pro) running on:

10.0.0.2
10.0.0.3
10.0.0.4

The router is on 10.0.0.1 and its WAN interface is correctly assigned:

212.159.45.120

... by DHCP.

I've always wanted to be able to run Apache on my Linux box for web
development within the LAN but with my old dial-up account I had to keep
switching it on and off when accessing the internet. Am I correct in
assuming that, even without a firewall, the Apache service is now only
accessible from within the LAN?

OK, OK, OK the firewall's coming soon :-) but I just need to know how
difficult it is to hack my Apache from the internet.

Garry Heaton



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