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SNF and webserver loopback problem


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Setup:

Mandrake SNF forwards port 80 to webserver which has an internal IP address.

 

My problem is that i want to type in http://www.whatever.com and be sent to my webserver. SNF seems to not allow traffic to loop back through the system. I was told that this was a security feature and was used to make sure that nobody could forge an internal ip address and access the webbased SNF config. To make this short I want to be able to turn this off with out causing a security issue. I belive that it is a general firewall setting that i need to turn off, but have little experince with anything other then a GUI config.

 

does anybody know which files to edit and what to look for? and especially what not to do. Thanks.

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don't turn it off !!!!

instead put an internal DNS server in your network that resolves www.domain.com to 192.168.1.x (or whatever)

Much safer ... and easier to get running

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