[Suns-at-Home] Building new server

[Claus Kick]

Brian Costello wrote:


Hello,

normally, it should not be a problem.

I use my standard-cheapo-2004 netgear router for the following:

- forward ssh to my SS20 (those are indeed lovely machines, arent they?)
- foward http requests to SS20 (dyndns)
- foward ftp requests to SS20

Cannot say for mail, but fail to see how that could be a problem.

Only drawback in my case (but thats probably just me being stupid) is 
that I cannot access my own DynDNS website from any other comp inside my 
own network, I have to use the LAN-IP for that,
i.e. I cannot do
http://blablabla.dyndns.org/bla.html

from within my network, I have to do

http://192.168.0.x/bla.html

But, as I said, I am not sure where that behaviour comes from and quite 
frankly, once discovered, it is no problem at all.

Cheers from Europe,

Claus

> I just got my hands on a pair or Sunfire V100 servers and plan to use 
> one to replace my trusty old SS20 that has been my mail/web/ftp server 
> as well as my firewall/NAT router. The other V100 will be a spare which 
> is what I have now with an extra SS20 in case or a major failure. Back 
> when I set up the SS20 (circa 1998) that was the only way for me to have 
> a NAT capable router for a reasonable cost. When the plethora of low 
> cost DSL / cable switch/routers came on the market, I kept the SS20 in 
> place instead of using one of those. Now that I finally plan to upgrade, 
> I am looking for some advice on whether I should use the V100 as a 
> firewall or use my Linksys 4 port wireless switch/router for that. My 
> question to the group is whether the port forwarding on typical routers 
> will allow a server on the internal network to work as it does now. I 
> need the server for the services above except the firewall/router.
>