Port forwarding question.

[andy2008]

Hi guys!
I have a question regarding port forwarding.
I have a fedora server, with two eth cards: eth0 ---> external IP, eth1 ----> LAN IP
I use SNAT for connection sharing. I also have an internet domain hosted on this server... let's call it www.mydomain.com
Anyway, one of our computers in the LAN has some kind of web server on it, which must be accessed from the internet on the port 23700.
So, using iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 23700 -j DNAT --to 192.168.1.25 (the IP of the network computer)
Everything works perfectly fine from outside the lan.
When I type www.mydomain.com:23700, I connect to that computer.
My problem is that inside the lan, typing www.mydomain.com:23700 does not work! It only works if I enter it by IP 192.168.1.25:23700
Is there any way to make the server forward my request to that specific computer even if I'm inside the LAN?

[PatMcLJr]

maybe you could use some kind of dns to point to the local box on home lan?

Pat Jr.

[wneumann]

You can add www.mydomain.com to /etc/hosts with the ip address 192.168.1.25

[andy2008]

Originally Posted by wneumann

You can add www.mydomain.com to /etc/hosts with the ip address 192.168.1.25

Tried it... and it still doesn't work. From the linux machine, it works, if I ping www.mydomain.com it pings 192.168.1.25, but computers in LAN still ping the server when they ping www.mydomain.com... and that's a good thing, because I only want this to work when using port 23700, otherwise all requests must go to the linux machine (which hosts the main website for the domain, etc)