Re: Redirecting incoming traffic to 127.0.0.1

[Negrea Mihai <mike@spidernet.co.ro>]

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Maybe the packets reach your service listening on the localhost but they 
cannot get to the client because it has the source 127.0.0.1

Try SNAT-ing those packets:
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -p tcp -s 127.0.0.1 -j SNAT --to 172.16.172.12

hope I understood the problem

All the best,

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Negrea Mihai
http://www.negrea.net

On Friday 21 March 2003 16:31, Henry Ritzlmayr wrote:
> I have a service running on a box wich is only able to bind to 127.0.0.1
> (hardcoded and I can´t get the source to change it). Since I want to use
> it from any other box the only way to solve that I think is to nat
> incoming packets to 127.0.0.1.
>
> IPTABLES -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -d 172.16.172.12 -j DNAT
> --to-destination 127.0.0.1
>
> and many others wich I tried don´t work.
>
> If I understood REDIRECT correctly it only changes to the local IP where
> the packet came in (in my situation 172.16.172.12) wich also not solves
> the problem.
>
> any ideas?
>
> Henry

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