<![CDATA[Access to internet LAN through external domain address how?]]>So it seems something is not right in some rules or config.

Lets say I have a webserver hosted on my LAN at 192.168.0.100

I have a domain name pointing to my WAN, like www.hello.com -> 80.5.2.1 external WAN IP

If I'm on my internal network, and try to access www.hello.com, nothing happens, but if I directly access it through 192.168.0.100, it works.

If I'm on external network like public hotspot, www.hello.com works fine as well.

Is there some firewall or routing/NAT rule to allow access via domain name/address to LAN address?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/106023/access-to-internet-lan-through-external-domain-address-howRSS for NodeSat, 13 Jun 2026 16:06:46 GMTThu, 29 Sep 2016 18:21:50 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Access to internet LAN through external domain address how? on Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:44:23 GMT]]>Depending on what you're using for internal DNS, you would either create a new zone for your external domain and then just add some A records to it that point to your internal servers local addresses.  If you're using pfSense then you can just add a couple of host overrides.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/652386https://forum.netgate.com/post/652386Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:44:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Access to internet LAN through external domain address how? on Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:15:48 GMT]]>Yes it seems that's the best way, the only thing is I would need to add subdomains to hello.com since I have different servers running at different local internal IP

So something like

webserver - web.hello.com
ftp - ftp.hello.com
plex - plex.hello.com

Then override DNS for each of those to local IP.

Correct?

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/652382https://forum.netgate.com/post/652382Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:15:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Access to internet LAN through external domain address how? on Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:12:36 GMT]]>If you only have a few external hosts, you're better off disabling NAT Reflection and then setting a couple of DNS overrides so that your external domains resolve to their internal IP addresses.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/652380https://forum.netgate.com/post/652380Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:12:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Access to internet LAN through external domain address how? on Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:00:52 GMT]]>Hmm it works when nat reflection is enabled but then external access is very slow…

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/652379https://forum.netgate.com/post/652379Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:00:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Access to internet LAN through external domain address how? on Thu, 29 Sep 2016 18:31:42 GMT]]>Is domain name resolving to the expected address?
Is NAT reflection enabled?

If so this could be the trouble.

NAT Reflection and HSTS Documentation
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=118761.0

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/652376https://forum.netgate.com/post/652376Thu, 29 Sep 2016 18:31:42 GMT