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ThomasPape
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Oct 08, 2020

Nat loopback or Hairpinning on RAX40

I have a Synology NAS on my LAN, and a static IP from my ISP that is bound to a public domain name. Everything works perfectly out of the house, with port forwaring and security certificates and all.

My problem is that when I am home I can only acces it via the local LAN IP 192.168.x.x
This breaks a lot of the default links, and cerificates because they are relying on using the www.x.com route.

As far as I know I can bypass this problem by making a NAT Loopback on my router, but I cannot figure out where to enable it.
According to this kb the router should support it: https://kb.netgear.com/000049578/Which-NETGEAR-routers-support-NAT-loopback

Does anyone know how to set it up?

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  • antinode's avatar
    antinode
    Guru
    Oct 08, 2020

    > [...] RAX40

     

       Firmware version?

     

    > Does anyone know how to set it up?

     

       I've never seen a Netgear router model where there's anything to set
    up. It should just work.  However, bugs in Netgear router firmware are
    not uncommon.  For example, this problem has been reported repeatedly in
    the D7000v2:

     

          https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/x/m-p/1566171

     

       Regarding the D7000v2, responses from Netgear "support" tend toward
    "it's not supposed to work", but when your model appears in that KB
    article, that claim might be tougher to maintain.

     

       You might also check the specific forum for RAX models:

     

          https://community.netgear.com/t5/x/bd-p/en-home-routers-nighthawk-wifi-ax6