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Problem accessing secondary network at home

ATT Uverse is my ISP. They provided me with a 2wire router and a block of ip addresses. I have a sonicwall in front of the 2wire with it's own public ip. From outside my home I can access everything I need to just fine.

The 2wire router has a builtin WAP and it serves the internet to my family. I do a lot of work out of my house and have to tunnel into a couple of client sites and that is why I have the sonicwall. I host my mail server in-house which is behind the sonicwall as well  and I would like for my family to be able to reach it from the 2wire and right now they are unable to. I have access rules that allow source * to the ip on the lan that belongs to the mail server. Any ideas why I wouldn't be able to connect from the 2wire network 192.168.1.0 using a different public ip to my mail server that is behind the sonicwall? My guess there is a route or another access rule I'll need but I am not sure what it is.
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Disable the DNS client service on the computer in question. That'll
prevent it from caching DNS entries locally, and ask the DNS server for
every name it needs to resolve.

Can you ping to the mail server using the domain name from you the machines connected to the 2 wire?
Ping results will confirm that you are able to communicate between the mail server and the family lan.

Also I am assuming you are connecting the 2wire router behind the sonic wall and you are able to access the mail server from the exterior.
In this case look at the machine that is hosting the mail server.
Is there a strict firewall on the machine in question.
Are there any restrictions at the mail server itself for relaying mails.

What mail server are you running?



What model of sonicwall do you have? You mention * in your rule, so I'm assuming you have a tz170 with standard OS.
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asidu,
When I ping the mail server from a computer connected to the 2wire it resolves correctly to the outside IP of the Sonicwall but times out. I cannot connect on any port to the mail server either. I am sure it has something to do with the sonicwall and needing a setting tweaked. There is nothing on the mail server as far as a firewall itself that is restricting connections to it.

digitap,
TZ 180.
I reckon the sonicwall is configured to drop off ping packets.
For mail server to work with your 2wire clients, the sonic
wall has to allow specifically traffic on port 25 and 110.

Some of the other ports which may also need to be open at the sonicwall depending
on what type of mail server you are running.
POP3 - port 110
IMAP - port 143
SMTP - port 25
Secure SMTP (SSMTP) - port 465
Secure IMAP (IMAP4-SSL) - port 585
IMAP4 over SSL (IMAPS) - port 993
Secure POP3 (SSL-POP) - port 995

If you are running the Sonicwall Email Security Solution you will have to configure it correctly to
allow access from the exterior for the mail packets.

Just for testing is it possible to connect and test you 2Wire client via a switch to the email server?
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