[Tfug] OpenVPN and routing help

[chris whitman]

I think you're on the right track. You just need a router capable of NAT
loopback.

http://opensimulator.org/wiki/NAT_Loopback_Routers
Https://netwhit.net

On Aug 2, 2016 2:49 PM, "John Gruenenfelder" <jetpackjohn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the advice.
>
> Perhaps this is complicated by the lack of internal DNS on my home
> network.  Currently, I can access my server from the Internet at large
> as bebop.merseine.org thanks to a DynDNS.org account.  Unfortunately,
> my home router is presently stuck on stock firmware until I get home.
> This means that, say, to have my laptop be able to access bebop from
> within the home network I had to add an entry to /etc/hosts so it uses
> the internal IP address instead of the external IP as resolved by
> other DNS servers.
>
> Obviously, that same entry just causes problems when I'm *not*
> connected to the internal network.  Once I get dd-WRT on my router
> I'll have a lot more control over routing and DNS.  Then, I think, I
> can have DNSmasq hand out different IPs for the same machine depending
> on what network the request comes in on: one IP for the internal
> network, a different IP for the VPN traffic.
>
> At least, if I'm thinking about this the right way...  It's definitely
> not safe to tinker with the routing and/or DNS when I don't have
> physical access to the router or the server.  I don't want to cut off
> my existing remote access accidentally.  :)
>
>
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