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

Peter Clutton peterclutton at gmail.com
Tue Sep 20 17:18:46 PDT 2005


On 20 Sep 2005 13:40:17 -0400, Lowell Gilbert <
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote: 
> 
> Thomas Dimson <tdimson at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >
> > 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<http://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 <http://127.97.245.108>, it works perfectly. 

  You need to have DNS set up correctly on your internal network, tha's why 
IP works but domain name doesn't.


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