NAT Issue - SOLVED

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Hi Everyone,

I got m loopback working… I coudn’t delete the post because the page keeps erroring out.

Thanks


Not new to tech but am new the MikroTik hardware. I have an internal web server that I setup a NAT rule for 8443 and this rule works perfect for people outside my network accessing the webserver using the public url. The problem I have is that users on my local network can no longer use the external url to access the server. I seem to remember years ago I had a very similar problem with SonicWall FW where you had to do something extra to allow a user to type in a url that has to go out of the fireall and back in to work. I believe it has to do with a NAT Loopback or Hairpin NAT. I have tried and am currently trying different approaches with that but it doesn’t seem to want to work. Can someone please point me in the direct to adjust my settings?

I appreciate it much!

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take a look at this

https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/ROS/NAT#NAT-HairpinNAT

But, there will be a problem, when a client on the same network as the web server requests a connection to the web server's public IP address: 
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Thaks for the reply Chechito … I tried to delete the post before someone took their time to reply so they didn’t waste their time after I got the setup working but the forum wouldn’t let me.