Re: Local IP not being local

[SaVaGE <pc-secure@home.nl>]

Op dinsdag 29 april 2003 03:27, schreef Miguel Manso:
> Hi there,
>
> I've a linux machine acting as a router. I'm VERY happy with it and I'm
> learning a lot (iptables rocks).
>
> Now, I've something strange that I don't know how to solve.
>
> I've a static public IP, let's imagine - 100.100.100.1
>
> All the requests to that IP are redirected to the internal ip - 192.168.1.6
>
> Now, inside 192.168.1.6 if I ping 100.100.100.1 I get:
>
> 64 bytes from 100.100.100.1: icmp_seq=16 ttl=61 time=23.7 ms
>
> But, if I ping 'localhost' I get:
>
> 64 bytes from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
> time=0.044 ms
>
>
> This means that the ping that I'm doing to 100.100.100.1 is going to the
> router, going to the outside, coming back to the router and to the internal
> machine again.
>
> Can I "say" something to the linux router to just redirect all the requests
> to the 100.100.100.1 ip to the internal machine 192.168.1.6?
>
> Thanks a lot for the help.
>
> =====
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>
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My guess is, you have to alter your /etc/hosts file , cause when internal ip 
not is recognized ,then a query to the outside wil be made.

/etc/hosts

127.0.0.1		localhost.localdomain		localhost
192.168.1.6       yourname domain 		yourname 
100.100.100.1   yourname2domain		yourname2


Pascal (PC-Secure)