From: David Cannings <lists@edeca.net>
To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: iptables dnat to loopback
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 09:41:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408080941.38256.lists@edeca.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1091945878.12669.0.camel@localhost>
On Sunday 08 August 2004 07:17, Damian Gatabria wrote:
> :o( no luck.
> I even tried -F ing INPUT, FORWARD, OUTPUT, PREROUTING and POSTROUTING
> before adding the rule, (all policies set to ACCEPT) and still no luck!
> Forwarding is enabled,
> net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding = 1
> net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
> and still the packets are going nowhere... however giving
> the loopback an alias with an ip address of, say, 200.136.136.136
> works... so why can't I route to 127.0.0.x? Is there anything
> else I should check/add?
You can't send packets from non 127/8 addresses to 127/8. The kernel
filters them out and drops them as it considers them "martians".
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-08 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-06 17:13 iptables dnat to loopback Jason Opperisano
2004-08-07 10:15 ` David Cannings
2004-08-08 6:17 ` Damian Gatabria
2004-08-08 8:41 ` David Cannings [this message]
2004-08-08 17:50 ` Alistair Tonner
2004-08-09 14:40 ` Damian Gatabria
2004-08-10 1:29 ` Damian Gatabria
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-06 12:48 Jason Opperisano
2004-08-06 11:38 Damian Gatabria
2004-08-06 11:54 ` Klemen Kecman
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