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When investigating the first issue I had with customising ABE to allow access to a local system from an exernal one, I had the following scenario that doesn't trigger an ABE and wondered if it should; it's handy that it doesn't, I'm just not sure why it doesn't. We have IP based office phones, and t...

Hi Tom Thanks for persisting, and the final suggestion led to a fix. Adding .xxx.com for the external site didn't work, but adding BOTH the external and internal sites worked. So I have Accept LOCAL .xxx.com aaa.bbb/svn Not sure why both were needed unless it is related to aaa.bbb being an entry in ...

Hi Tom Neither of those rules match (added before LOCAL), so the LOCAL rule triggers ABE in both cases. So far only if the site directive has xxxxxxx.yyyy or the same with /zzz does it execute the rule. Note that while xxxxxxx.yyyy is in the local hosts file, the name resolves to the IP for a differ...

Hi Tom Thanks for the further replies, and yes, it's an external site under our control. The external site is part of a staff admin area, and most links that a staff member sees are links to other pages on external sites, but one link is to an internal site, and it's that link triggers the ABE. I'll...

Hi Tom Thanks for the reply. I tried to switch the rules out of interest but stil no joy. To recap, in SYSTEM I have something like # Allow external site foo.com to access local site bar.com Site bar.com Accept from *.foo.com Deny bar.com is in the local hosts file. A page on www.foo.com links to ht...

With NS 2.3.8, I'm stumped getting "Accept from" to match to allow access to a local server from a remote site, and would be grateful for pointers to where I'm going wrong; it should be trivial which is what's frustrating. Before the catch all for local, I added a rule similar to: Site xxx...