Hi all, I'm quite upset right now. I'm not a specialist in networking but I managed to make my little LAN to work fine except for this DAMNED NAT LOOPBACK ISSUE.
Please let me introduce my installation:
Internet --> ISP Fiber box --> DMZ on RT-AC68U --> LAN with DMZ on Synology NAS updating a registered www.my_domain.com DDNS account at NO-IP.
Till very recently, I didn't know the concept of NAT loopback and had 2 bookmarks for every one of my NAS services. One address used from WAN and one from LAN.
Now that I know I could use the WAN address i.e. www.my_domain.com to access my NAS even when I'm in the LAN, I just can't stand the fact that I can't get it to work with a high end ASUS Router.
I recently upgraded from stock firmware to last Merlin Firmware on my AC68U thinking that it would solve the problem but nothing happened.
NAT Loopback is set on Merlin in the firewall section but I never had any result trying to access my NAS from within the LAN with a my_domain.com address.
I'm not comfortable with updating config files as I didn't understand how to append the hosts file. Nevertheless, I shouldn't need it.
I consider changing my router for that reason as I'm really tired updating hosts files on each of my WAN and LAN devices.
Would you have a clue?
Thanks a lot.
Please let me introduce my installation:
Internet --> ISP Fiber box --> DMZ on RT-AC68U --> LAN with DMZ on Synology NAS updating a registered www.my_domain.com DDNS account at NO-IP.
Till very recently, I didn't know the concept of NAT loopback and had 2 bookmarks for every one of my NAS services. One address used from WAN and one from LAN.
Now that I know I could use the WAN address i.e. www.my_domain.com to access my NAS even when I'm in the LAN, I just can't stand the fact that I can't get it to work with a high end ASUS Router.
I recently upgraded from stock firmware to last Merlin Firmware on my AC68U thinking that it would solve the problem but nothing happened.
NAT Loopback is set on Merlin in the firewall section but I never had any result trying to access my NAS from within the LAN with a my_domain.com address.
I'm not comfortable with updating config files as I didn't understand how to append the hosts file. Nevertheless, I shouldn't need it.
I consider changing my router for that reason as I'm really tired updating hosts files on each of my WAN and LAN devices.
Would you have a clue?
Thanks a lot.