I recently setup an Astaro box at a client of mine. The box has three nics in. One on a 192.168.200.XXX network, one on a 172.19.XXX.XXX network and the other on a small subnet from their ISP (forget the range) refered to as the 'external' network.
Anyway ... Currently the Exchange server sits on the external network as well as the 172.19.XXX.XXX network. For various reasons dns resolves the ip of their exchange server to the external IP address. We will move the exchange server behind the firewall at some point ... but not yet.
I am currently playing DNS proxy games to get the internal (172.19.2.5) ip address of the exchange server back to the clients of the 172.19.XX.XX network, instead of the external ip.
But ... I figured I could do the same thing by doing a DNAT/SNAT. So that any connection from the 172.19.XXX.XXX (source) to the external ip of the exchange server would have the destination address mapped to the internal ip address of the exchange server (172.19.2.5). But this doesn't seem to work.
Any reason(s) why it wouldn't? I'll be happy to provide more information as I'd like to understand this better.
Also we plan to move the exchange server behind the firewall (disconnecting the external interface) and I want to make sure I can use DNAT/SNAT to map the old external IP address of the exchange server to the internal address. So help on how to do that effectively would be great as well.
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