Dynamic DNS NAT Fails from LAN

[jmmille]

I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask this question.

I have a dynamic dns setup and use it to easily connect to services at my house from work.  In the past, I have used a NAT to make the firewall rules and forward ports as necessary.  This works perfectly from outside my network.  The thing that I can't seem to figure out is how to allow the use of the dynamic dns from the LAN.

For example:  From outside the network, webpage.dyndns.org:8080 works perfectly.

From the LAN, webpage.dyndns.org:8080 returns a 404 error code.

Any ideas on how to make this work?

[jimp]

NAT reflection may help, so long as your router gui isn't on the same port that you're trying to forward/reflect.

Or you could add a DNS override entry under Services > DNS Forwarder that points webpage.dyndns.org to your internal web server's IP.

[jmmille]

I'll give NAT Reflection a try.

I'm trying out Amahi, which wants to act as your DNS/DHCP server.  Once I disabled DHCP on Pfsense, my override stopped working as well.  It may be something that I have to figure out in Amahi, but this is worth a shot.

Thanks!

[jmmille]

NAT Reflection seems to work perfectly!  Do I lose anything for having that box unchecked?

Thanks again!

[jimp]

Nothing terribly wrong with using NAT Reflection for a couple ports here and there. It just doesn't scale well for larger purposes.