Intranet/Internet Gateway - Intranet requests to Internet ip time out

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Tue Sep 20 10:40:20 PDT 2005


Thomas Dimson <tdimson at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I've posted here about getting a gateway working and everyone was a
> great help. There is just one thing left to fix before everything
> works 100%.
> 
> I have my routes set up as thus: any requests to 127.97.0.0 is routed
> through network card #2, (127.97.245.108)  within my university
> network for high speeds. Any other traffic is routed through network
> card #1 (192.168.1.110) to 192.168.1.1, which is a router with a cable
> modem attached. Everything works beautifully - my original problem was
> that natd wasn't enabled on my university network IP.
> 
> Here is my problem: whenever a person on the internal network tries to
> connect to my web server (or anything else) on my public IP, the
> request times out. I type in www.presidenturkel.com (my domain name)
> on any computer in my university and it appears like it exists, but
> does not return any signals. If I manually type in the ip
> 127.97.245.108, it works perfectly. My guess is that the computer is
> not expecting a request to return through the university network.

Are you sure that is *is* returning through the university network?
I would not expect it to do so.


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