Hi, I went through the same downsize exercise as you a few months back, including going with a cheaper ISP which provided me with a stock router which also exhibited this behaviour. I put up with it for a while, then had to upgrade to a Netgear router primarily because I wanted 1GB Ethernet ports, but as a side effect of doing this, I got to be able to go to servers on the inside via the external address. When I go through the router like this to get a connection, the web logs are showing the traffic as coming through the router's internal IP address, so it is obviously deliberately re-routing the traffic. I couldn't see any way of doing this in the cheaper Thomson router I was given by my ISP, but conversely, there is no way to switch the feature off in the Netgear either. Thanks. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Darragh OHeiligh Sent: 18 January 2012 11:14 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Routing on a Belkin router. Sorry, my questions are usually much more targeted at enterprise environments but this morning I'm thinking about my home set up. I've downsized a lot recently. From running Hyper-V on two dedicated 2900's and 2950's and PFSense on a dedicated appliance I've gone to running just one Linux server on a cut down Asus system. I had to do it for a number of reasons but basically, it was becoming too difficult to manage and do everything else as well. I'm encountering a limitation of my newly purchased Belkin router. It's an N600 and for various reasons it doesn't support any variant of DDWRT. external services are running fine thanks to it's port forwarding / virtual servers or what ever terminology it wants to use. So, on the internet I can access systems on port 80 or 443 etc. The problem is that inside the network, I cannot access these systems. I know that DNS etc is working fine because if I ping one of the hostnames it resolves to the public IP but if I try to access the system using http for example the traffic never gets to the server. I'm assuming it's getting stuck at the router side. The router is likely not forwarding traffic origionating from an internal address back through the router to the internal server. Weird ay? Any ideas? Thanks Regards Darragh Ó Héiligh Fujitsu Offices of the Houses of the Oireachtas, Fredrick Building, South Fredrick Street, Dublin2 Telephone: +353 (1) 618 3559 Email: darragh.oheiligh@oireachtas.ie Internet: http://www.oireachtas.ie _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins