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From: Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org>
Subject: Re: Connect to localhost bound port from outside?
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:13:59 +0100
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Hello,

jan_bar a =E9crit :
>=20
> I want to connect from my VPN interface to the port that is bound to
> (listening on) localhost. The server listens only on localhost, so it i=
s not
> visible to outside world and it seems that I cannot use iptables to for=
ward
> outside traffice from VPN to that port.

Iptables will happily redirect anything you like to localhost, but the=20
kernel IP routing prohibits communications with a loopback address on a=20
non loopback interface and thus will drop the packets. This is similar=20
to the problem in the above thread "port forwarding through localhost",=20
and the same workaround is applicable.