DNAT to another Network?

DNAT to another Network?

[Svavar Örn Eysteinsson]

Hi everybody.

I have one question about DNAT.

I have a computer foo.com on an ipaddress xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Is there any way for me to DNAT all traffic with destination to foo.com
to another server out-of-town, e.g. computer foobar.com with zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz
that
is not on my public network.?



Diagram : (showing where the traffic should go)


Traffic with destination to Computer A

      INTERNET(ISP nr1)   -------INTERNET(ISP nr2)
         |                |         |
         |                |         |
    Network A             |      Network B
         |                |         |
         |                |         |
     Firewall             |    Computer B (final destination)
         |          |-----|
         ->Computer A
         
Best regards,

Svavar O
Reykjvik - Iceland

Re: DNAT to another Network?

[Gavin Hamill]

On Wednesday 07 July 2004 12:51, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote:
> Hi everybody.
>
> I have one question about DNAT.
>
> I have a computer foo.com on an ipaddress xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>
> Is there any way for me to DNAT all traffic with destination to foo.com
> to another server out-of-town, e.g. computer foobar.com with
> zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz that
> is not on my public network.?

Yes, basically using Computer A to be an IP-level proxy. Note that the source 
address as seen by Computer B will always be that of Computer A. If this is 
not a problem, you can use:

$IPTABLES -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -d xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -j DNAT 
--to zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz
$IPTABLES -A FORWARD -p tcp --dport 80 -d xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx j ACCEPT
$IPTABLES -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -d zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz -j SNAT 
--to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Drop the '--dport 80' bits if you want all traffic, not just HTTP to be 
proxied.

Cheers,
Gavin.

RE: DNAT to another Network?

[Svavar Örn Eysteinsson]

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Cool :0)
Thanks.

Anyone know how I would draw this in fwbuilder?.
This scenario confuses me. :0(

Thanks a lot.
Best regards,

Svavar O 
 
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Sent: 7. júlí 2004 12:07
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Subject: Re: DNAT to another Network?

On Wednesday 07 July 2004 12:51, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote:
> Hi everybody.
>
> I have one question about DNAT.
>
> I have a computer foo.com on an ipaddress xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>
> Is there any way for me to DNAT all traffic with destination to foo.com
> to another server out-of-town, e.g. computer foobar.com with
> zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz that
> is not on my public network.?

Yes, basically using Computer A to be an IP-level proxy. Note that the
source 
address as seen by Computer B will always be that of Computer A. If this is 
not a problem, you can use:

$IPTABLES -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -d xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -j DNAT 
--to zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz
$IPTABLES -A FORWARD -p tcp --dport 80 -d xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx j ACCEPT
$IPTABLES -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -d zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz -j SNAT

--to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Drop the '--dport 80' bits if you want all traffic, not just HTTP to be 
proxied.

Cheers,
Gavin.


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Re: DNAT to another Network?

[Gavin Hamill]

On Wednesday 07 July 2004 13:22, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote:
> Cool :0)
> Thanks.
>
> Anyone know how I would draw this in fwbuilder?.
> This scenario confuses me. :0(

I've never used fwbuilder, but I suspect that a 'black magic' incantation like 
this would be beyond the scope of a GUI firewall tool.

To be honest, I'm not entirely sure how it works, but I understand it enough 
to be able to adjust the values to suit the scenario, and that's good enough 
for me at the moment. 

I last used this in a physical server move, so that requests for the old IP 
address would be proxied to the new one. It used a lot of bandwidth, but was 
a much better solution than simply having the server 'offline' for some 
clients for many hours whilst DNS propogated...

Now we use BGP and multiple providers which solves the addressing problem, but 
throws up dozens of new problems :)

Cheers,
Gavin.

Re: DNAT to another Network?

[Alexander Samad]

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On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:51:02AM -0000, Svavar ?rn Eysteinsson wrote:
> Hi everybody.
> 
> I have one question about DNAT.
> 
> I have a computer foo.com on an ipaddress xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> 
> Is there any way for me to DNAT all traffic with destination to foo.com
> to another server out-of-town, e.g. computer foobar.com with zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz
> that
> is not on my public network.?
> 
> 
> 
> Diagram : (showing where the traffic should go)
> 
> 
> Traffic with destination to Computer A
> 
>       INTERNET(ISP nr1)   -------INTERNET(ISP nr2)
>          |                |         |
>          |                |         |
>     Network A             |      Network B
>          |                |         |
>          |                |         |
>      Firewall             |    Computer B (final destination)
>          |          |-----|
>          ->Computer A
>          

you can do iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -j -d foo.com DNAT --to-destination
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

the only problem is if the machine xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx can talk to the
originator with talking to the machine nat'ing, then you need an SNAT
rule as well.


> Best regards,
> 
> Svavar O
> Reykjvik - Iceland
> 
> 
> 

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