[c-nsp] NAT question

[David J. Hughes]

Most "modern" DNS servers support different views based on the source 
IP of the request.  You could solve your problem by offering a view 
with the mail servers private address to LAN client and it's public 
address to everyone else.  Have a look at

http://sysadmin.oreilly.com/news/views_0501.html

for a tutorial covering implementing this sort of configuration in BIND 
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David
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On 15/11/2005, at 9:29 PM, Raz wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  I would like to know if  I can access an email server running behind a
> NAT router with static mapping from within the LAN by using mail 
> servers
> FQDN e.g mail.xxx.com existing setup is
>
> Outside Client X ---> Router-with-NAT------>Mail server sitting on LAN
>
> what if the same user Client X tries to access the mail server by using
> its hostname mail.xxx.com which resolves to NAT routers public IP
> address, I would like to know is it possible to let the Client X use 
> the
> same hostname regardless of its source network either publically or 
> from
> within the LAN.