Hitting Outside IP Address From Inside

[bradsully]

I am running NAT/PAT on a router. From a host on the inside network i can ping and telnet to my routers outside interface. I have another computer on the network that is running remote desktop. From the computer on the inside network I can remote desktop to the computer using its inside ip address. When I try to remote desktop from inside to the outside ip that is mapped to that internal address it will not work. Remote desktop works from outside the network so the mapping is fine. Any Ideas?

 

[lohelle]

There are no support for NAT loopback on Cisco routers as far as I know.. Quite annoying actually. Usually this is "fixed" by using an internal DNS server that "fixes" this (points to the internal ip address)

 

[bradsully]

that sucks, we have a linksys router in the office now and that can do it but I couldn't get the cisco to.