[Gllug] Odd routing problem

[John Winters]

Ben Whyte wrote:
> Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>> On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 23:14 +0000, Ben Whyte wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I am having an odd problem and I wonder if anyone can shed some light.
>>>
>>> I have a static ip on my adsl router.
>>>
>>> I have a dns entry for that IP address.
>>>
>>>  From outside my home network i can connect to the services on my home 
>>> network that are portforwarded from my router.
>>>
>>> However from inside the network it fails, saying connection refused.
>>>
>>> Any one ever come accross this before, or got any ideas on how to solve it ?
>>>
>> using the private or the public IP address?
>>
> using the public address, as the particular service is my imap server. 
> and i want to read mail both internal to network and external

Won't work.

You need to set up separate DNS entries for internal and external use. 
You thus access it as imap.mydomain.org which when you're outside gives 
your public IP address and when you're inside gives the private IP 
address of the relevant machine.

HTH
John
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