I've been working for a while now at killing off every remnant of M$ software in my apartment. (Waits for applause to subside :) The biggest obstacle now is the central server that's running W2K Advanced Server. I've gotten apache and apache-ssl set up on my Debian, up until now, just mail server. (I'd like to use apache2 actually, but it doesn't provide apache and squirrelmail depends on apache.) I'd love to kill off IIS 5.0 on the W2K box, but I'm faced with a problem. Setting up port forwarding on the NAT router for ports 80 and 443 to the Debian box is quite easy and works like a charm for outside connections. However, when I try to connect from behind the router, it never gets called and the request goes to the W2K box instead. Since the NAT services are going to be the last things to get migrated, installing ipmasq on the Debian box and just doing a "quick switch" isn't really an option for the time being. I'm figuring that there should be some form of DNS "trickery" that I can do to achieve the desired effect, but I'm not sure how to go about it. Here's my current setup: Two domains: the-love-shack.net (registered external domain name) and theloveshack.local (internal domain name). One external IP address. 2 servers, BigBrother (W2K) and Gandalf (Debian). The only idea that I have is perhaps somehow (don't know how :) putting an entry for www.the-love-shack.net into theloveshack.local DNS listing and have it point to the internal IP for Gandalf. Just putting in a www(.theloveshack.local, which is not what I want) entry is easy enough, but how do I put a DNS entry for a "foreign" domain into my local DNS domain? (Not from a Windows standpoint, just as far as DNS is concerned.) Or are there any other ways to go about this? TIA -Alex
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