Re: Routing http & email in a home network

From: Ian Blackwell (ian.blackwell_at_dontspam.bigpond.com)
Date: 12/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 07:06:39 GMT

Hold the phone!

I found it under the Sharing/Settings/Services dialogue of the DUN
connection.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction - greatly appreciated! :)

Ian

"Herb Martin" <news@LearnQuick.com> wrote in message
news:Ox0ONNL5EHA.3596@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> "Ian Blackwell" <ian.blackwell@dontspam.bigpond.com> wrote in message
> news:IXMwd.76752$K7.51487@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a Windows 2000 Pro PC running Internet Connection Sharing. The
W2k
> PC
> > is
> > connected to the internet semi-permanently through an ISDN connection
that
> > drops out and reconnects every 5 hours or so (ISP initiated). I use
> > www.zoneedit.com for dynamic IP DNS of my domain name due to the varying
> IP
> > address I am assigned each time the ISDN reconnects.
>
>
> > I have a small home network behind the W2k PC including a Fedora 3
server
> > that I want to use for httpd and sendmail. The W2k PC is the device
that
> > has a public IP address - all other machines, including the Fedora
server
> > use statically assigned 192.168.0.x addresses.
>
> Since you are using IPC for address translation and routing
> you can map incoming connections on that machine to the
> internal service machines (by IP and port number.)
>
> It's a dialog on the NIC of the EXTERNAL (shared)
> connection -- located with the Firewall settings.
>
> > My question is this: What do I need to configure on the W2k PC to
redirect
> > httpd and sendmail traffic to the Fedora server? I've added the Fedora
> > server's IP address to the host table on the W2k machine with for the
> public
> > domain name, but that didn't seem to help much.
>
>
> Microsoft (in XP) added the firewall and uses the
> same dialog pages to merely open incoming server
> connects as they use for opening and mapping them
> to other machines to provide those services.
>
> In the latter case, you not only open the external port
> but send it to an internal IP and port combination.
>
> >
> > Thanks in advance, and if you think there is a better group to post this
> > message to, please let me know also.
>
>
>
> --
> Herb Martin
>
>
> >
> > Ian Blackwell
> >
> >
>
>

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