[plug] re: accessing web page

[Leon Brooks]

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 18:19, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <1056794749.2188.1477.camel at jlmpc>
> on Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 06:05:49PM +0800, Jon Miller wrote:
> > The hostname is gateway, the domain name is mmtnetworks.com.au.  If
> > I'm try to access www.mmtnetworks.com.au from the internal network,
> > I get nothing.

> Aha! Some details. Okay, if you want to access www.mmtnetworks.com.au
> from within your VPN then routing and encryption are going to be the
> main issues. Domain name issues *might* be part of the problem but it
> really depends on how the VPN has been set up.

CHeat's way: add www.mmtnetworks.com.au and mmtnetworks.com.au as host 
entries (A records) to the DNS you're using for internal addresses, as 
internal addresses.

So if you have an internal domain mmt so the gateway machine is named 
gateway.mmt, the above would resolve as "www.mmtnetworks.com.au.mmt", 
then all you need do (if you are virtual hosting) is tell Apache about 
it so it can virtual host properly.

This is also the simplest way to get around the interesting routing 
issues raised by multi-homing.

Cheers; Leon