Re: HTTP Port forwarding issues

[Tom Eastep <teastep@shorewall.net>]

Big Daddy wrote:
> all,
>      for some reason i can get my smtp and pop3 to route from 
> the  internet, but i cannot get http requests to forward correctly.
> 
>  iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -i eth0 -d $int_ip -p tcp --dport http -m 
> state --state NEW -j ACCEPT
>  iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -i eth0 -d $int_ip -p tcp --dport smtp -m 
> state --state NEW -j ACCEPT (works)
>  iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -i eth0 -d $int_ip -p tcp --dport pop3 -m 
> state --state NEW -j ACCEPT (works)
> 
>  iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d $ext_ip -p tcp --dport smtp -j DNAT 
> --to-destination $int_smtp:25 (works)
>  iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d $ext_ip -p tcp --dport pop3 -j DNAT 
> --to-destination $int_pop3:110 (works)
>  iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -d $ext_ip -p tcp --dport http -j DNAT 
> --to-destination $int_http:80
> 
>  web server is running IIS5.
> any help would be great!

More than likely your ISP is blocking incoming HTTP requests.

-Tom
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