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PIX 501 website traffic out and come back in

I am using a CISCO PIX 501 with port 80 forwarded to my web server. I am using a flash content manager called fCMS on my website. The way the content manager is pathed it has to go out to

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the web and come back into the web server. The PIX does not allow this but I don't know why. Does anybody know how to allow traffic to go out and come back in? Thank you for your help in advance!

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kg026
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You can't do that on a PIX 501.

However, what you -can- do is reconfigure you DNS services so that when an inside host makes a request to

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it is told the internal IP address rather than the external IP address.

The mechanisms for configuring that depend upon whether your DNS server is inside or outside. If it is outside, it would be configured by using the 'dns' keyword on a 'static' command, if you are using PIX 6.3; in PIX 6.2, you would look at the 'alias' command instead.

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Walter Roberson

Is "

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" the same URL as the hosted one on the inside server, or is it on an outsied server ?

Regards Martin

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Martin Bilgrav

Sorry for the late reply! When an inside host goes to

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it resolves to the internal IP which is why we are so confused as to why this is a problem. The fCMS software support can't figure it out either! Thanks!

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kg026

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is an internal hosted server. Thanks!

Reply to
kg026

The Pix won't allow traffic to exit the same interface that it entered from. You would have to resolve the host locally so that it used the internal address and not the external.

Chris.

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chris

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