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 Message 510 
 mark lewis to niter3 
 Hello all 
 31 Aug 12 05:29:23 
 
N> I think dingo is correct, trying to use your outside ip to loop back via p
N> forwarding will never work.  Your hosts file is your best bet.  Google you
N> version of Winodows and HOSTS to find out where it's stored (I don't use
N> Windows so I can't tell you where any of them are) then edit the hosts fil
N> add the fqdn and local ip of your machine and you should be good.

 n> I am able to loop back just fine on my setup. Grant you I had to
 n> turn on the option in pFsense.

loopback is one term used for this capability... hairpin is another ;)

i don't use pfsense but another open source firewall and is rather similar ;)

)\/(ark

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