Re: web server behind a nat box not coming out

[Sebastien G <sebas-listes@alternatives.ca>]

I found my problem... It was the default gateway on the debian 
machines...  it was not set to use the freebsd box doing port forwarding!

Doh!

Sebastien

Sebastien G wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have one gateway/nat (freebsd 4.8R) which I setup to be the gateway 
> for the LAN and to do port forwarding on port 80 to a Debian web 
> server.  From the outside, when I want to surf to the web server 
> behind the gateway/freebsd box the connection seems to hang...
>
> I've this bizarre problem with all and only the debian web server 
> boxes behind a gateway/nat box...  I tested the redirection with a 
> Freebsd and OSX web servers and from the outside I can surf the to web 
> server with no problems!
>
> I used to have an OpenBSD box as the gateway/nat the same situation 
> was occuring ... i,e. it is not possible get anything out from the 
> outside.  The problem also occurs when I try to forward ssh...
>
> Anyone had this problem before?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Seb