[Techtalk] ADSL NB5 gateway webserver problems

[Kathryn Andersen]

On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 10:35:44PM -0500, Kathryn Hogg wrote:
> My stupid DSL modem works more or less the same.  My static IP address is
> allocated to the modem and all my computers sit behind NAT.  I have to
> configure port forwarding for the services I want open to the world.
> 
> Where it pain comes in is that the Actiontec modem is brain dead and the
> iptables rules are borked so that it won't route to the external IP
> address from the internal lan.

It's good to know that I'm not the only one.
 
> Since I only have a handful of machines, I just edited all the hosts files
> so that my public host names are set to 192.168.0.x and then set
> nsswitch.conf to search hosts before dns.

Hmmmm, when I have an actual network I'll have to remember to change
those to 192.168.0.x rather than the 127.0.0.x suggested earlier.
Well, anyway, it works for now!  Thanks for the help!

Kathryn Andersen
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