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jimbo67
Sep 30, 2024Aspirant
PR60X Managing hosts file
Hello, for some reasons i would need to update the hosts file of the touteur ( cannot access lan website using names and ssl with wireguard since i left cloudflare for a cheaper solution ). But ...
jimbo67
Sep 30, 2024Aspirant
I found the answer myself https://kb.netgear.com/000049578/What-is-NAT-loopback-and-which-NETGEAR-routers-support-NAT-loopback
jimbo67
Sep 30, 2024Aspirant
And then https://kb.netgear.com/000066031/How-do-I-enable-NAT-loopback-on-my-PR60X-or-PR460X
Well kinda strange but it works after i moved the web server port from the mx510txp to one of the pr60x port.
- jimbo67Sep 30, 2024Aspirant
And without the loopback i had lost insight mangement too. I just realised when the blue light came back after switch the port.
Anyway would be so much easier to be able to update hosts from web interface.
- jimbo67Sep 30, 2024Aspirant
Well i was wrong it solved one part of the problem as accessing local somme application using port 443 on server pinpointing to wan adress.
But since i used ip filtering to access toses server it doesnt work when i tried to access them using vpn I tried ipsec,openvpn and wireguard but none can access those url.
- c3po2Sep 30, 2024Apprentice
Hi Jimbo, Could you please let us know exact issues so that we can try to reproduce the issue and see if we can have workaround, for examples:
LAN (or WAN) has issue to access LAN (or WAN) using IP (or DDNS Domain name) through VPN (or not) - If there is issue, what is the symptom? Thanks.
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