Accessing private network from the Internet

Thierry XXthierry_b at ifrance.com
Tue May 9 10:11:09 UTC 2000


that's very 'clair' thanks :-)
Since I was running into too much trouble, I moved my DNS server onto the
firewall itself.

Jack Aubert <jaubert at cpcug.org> wrote in message
news:WbWQ4.91220$cZ.207851 at typhoon.southeast.rr.com...
> I'm not really an expert... but I think the answer would be pretty much
what
> I'm doing with my domain chezaubert.net:
>
> You can have your private address space listed in your DNS.  I'm using the
> private class C address space (192.168.0.0) and have my five or six hosts
in
> the DNS with those addresses.  But nothing on the outside can ever get to
> them because the addresses will not be routed by Internet routers.
>
> But this is fine, since I don't want outsiders to be able to reach my
inside
> hosts directly anyway.  You have to have one outside address that will
> resolve to your firewall.  The firewall should send traffic inside to
> whatever server is designated to handle the protocol in question.  In my
> case I have the firewall-router-computer with two NIC cards, one of which
is
> a public address.  The DNS has the single public address as well as the
> private addresses for the other hosts.  They are unreachable from the
> outside, but work from the inside.  The DNS resolves all www and mail to
the
> public address.  The firewall-proxy-computer forwards  www and SMTP mail
to
> an inside server that uses a private address and handles the DNS protocol
> himself.
>
> C'est clair?
> ..
>
>
> Thierry <nospam_thierryb_ms at wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
> news:8esnd2$oti$1 at wanadoo.fr...
> > my whole network (DNS, Mail, Web, FTP servers) is composed with private
IP
> > addresses : 10.1.1.0
> > I've setup a firewall between the Internet and my network.
> >
> > The mail server is running multiple domain (using vpop) so I've binded
an
> IP
> > address for each domain.
> > I've done the same thing for the FTP server.
> >
> > Everything is working perfectly locally.
> >
> > Can I keep my private addresses or do I need official IP addresses for
> each
> > server and each virtual email domain ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Thierry.
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