Problem with MX records behind firewall.
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I have a netgear firewall/router that allows portforwarding of specific ports
to my internal network.
If I send mail to chandlerfamily.org.uk the MX record on the external DNS for
this is the external address of my netgear box, but attempts to access its
smtp port will cause all connections to be forwarded to an internal machine
on my network (10.0.10.100) using NAT addressing and port forwarding.
I am having a problem with Mailman on my internal network with the
chandlerfamily.org.uk mail addresses. My guess is its doing an MX lookup and
getting the external address of my netgear box. Unfortunately, the
port-forwarding does not seem to work when accessing the box from internally.
So the net effect is that mailman gets told that this mail address is
invalid.
One thing I could do, since I am running bind as a dns server on my internal
network is to create a zone file for the chandlerfamily.org.uk domain with MX
records pointing to the internal IP address.
Is this possible (since only internal machines will be querying that
particular DNS) as the domain will be defined differently that the public DNS
with my domain in it? Can I set it up this internal DNS to only hold a
subset of my domain and somehow forward the requests it can't answer on to
the public DNS?
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Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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