[Fwd: [Fwd: Firewall blocking broadcasts in between NT Servers]]

[gibbs () netquest com]

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> From: "vanVelthoven, Wayne" <Wayne.vanVelthoven () nrc ca>
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> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 14:49:05 -0400
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> I haven't been able to solve that one.  The firewall is doing IP
> masquerading thing and I don't know how to handle that.  I tried using
> LMHOSTS files all over as well as WINS static entries, but somehow the
> PDC is still getting told about the wrong IP address.  The only way I
> can see that happening is if the web server is sending the PDC messages
> like "according to my records, my own IP address is..." as opposed to
> "the IP address on this packet is mine".  So that amounts to the content
> of the packet, which the firewall cannot translate.
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> The only thing (I think) I can do is to take the server out of the
> domain and make it completely stand-alone.  We'll have to maintain an
> extra SAM database, but at least the alerts will stop.
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> Nothing so far has helped with the masquerading problem, including
> endless searches in the knowledge base.  Maybe I've missed something,
> but for now I'm just telling them it can't be done.  If you hear about
> any new ideas to solve this, please let me know.
> Thanks very much for your help, Mike and everyone else who replied.
>
> Wayne van Velthoven, MCP
> National Research Council Canada
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>         From:   borkin () netquest com [SMTP:borkin () netquest com]
>         Sent:   1998-07-17 (Friday) 22:19
>         To:     wayne.vanvelthoven () nrc ca
>         Subject:        [Fwd: Firewall blocking broadcasts in between NT
> Servers]
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>         Wayne,
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>           I hope this has helped you.. let me know if and how you solved
> the
>         problem so I can pass it back to the people who helped.  I think
> that
>         the posts that you'll receive on this are pretty much at an end
> unless I
>         re-post what the current situation is.
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>         Mike
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