Re: can't send some mail through the firewall

From: Chris (never_at_work)
Date: 12/02/03


Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 18:46:32 -0000


"blasapher" <blasapher@cox.net> wrote in message
news:607e9005.0312021035.62bd4416@posting.google.com...
> First, let me describe our setup. We are a development company, but
> we host some websites for clients. We have a class c range of public
> IP addresses as well as our private network. Our office configuration
> is T1-> router -> firewall, and behind the Watchguard firewall is both
> our public (optional) and private (trusted) network.
>
> There are 2 problems, but I think they are related.
> 1) None of our servers sitting on our public/optional network can
> email to known addresses on our private side; but the rest of the
> world can email us just fine.
>
> 2) From our public/optional network, we can not telnet over port 25 to
> our exchange server; but again we can do that just fine from any where
> in the world.
>
> The error we are seeing on the servers that are generating the emails
> to be sent is: remote server did not respond to a connection attempt.
>
> We've checked, and checked, and checked everything on the firewall and
> exchange server and can't seem to find what we are missing. Any ideas
> would be greatly appreciated!
> Thanks!
> Steph

So are you saying that you have both public AND private addresses behind the
watchguard firewall on the same network? Or, are you using a third interface
on the firewall to create a DMZ? What separates the public and private
network?

Chris.



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