From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Payal Rathod Subject: Re: firewall problem continued Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 04:43:53 -0400 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <20040810084353.GB22730@tranquility.scriptkitchen.com> References: <20040809081216.GA12643@tranquility.scriptkitchen.com> <200408091231.33128.Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk> <20040810081418.GA22730@tranquility.scriptkitchen.com> <200408100926.33589.Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200408100926.33589.Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk> Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Netfilter ML On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 09:26:33AM +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > Why does the mail server need to refer to itself using the public IP? No idea. I thought that is recommended. I mean every machine should be able to access itself using all its IPs. But if you say so, I don't mind. Will the same rule apply even when I using it as a database or webserver? > You should be cautious about doing too many things one after another which are > simply needed as workarounds for a strange network setup, or a non-ideal DNS > setup, and sooner or later you need to stop adding workarounds and change the > underlying design. Are you saying my setup is broken? Should I change my whole design? With warm regards, -Payal