FINALLY got it working with the host entry. In my case there were 2 other entries required to make it work.
- Host entry as suggested by several FINE PEOPLE in the Ipfire community.
- Changing the Primary DNS on the wifi router to the same ip as the blue gateway. (This is from the IP subnet 192.168.x.1/24 that you setup for your blue zone. This is the key; without this entry the host entry from step one will NOT be found.
- Again on your wifi router port forward the source port to the destination port on your server…
Thats it… with the wifi Primary DNS now pointing up to the Blue Zone the host entry was found and it works external and internal seemlessly. Perfect.
A big thanks for everyone’s help.