I'm working on getting my firewall machine to display a message to my users any time they wander off of the OK'd list. The problem is when I have the line at the bottom labeled the problem line, it redirects all port 80 requests to the local machine without allowing the ones on the OK'd list out. When that line is commented out the script works perfectly. When a user types in amazon.com, they get amazon.com, when they type in hotsheep.com thier browser times out. Anyone have any ideas how I can just redirect the traffic that falls outside the wall to go back to the local webserver to recieve a proper error message? I know the problem lies in the use of DNAT in PREROUTING happening before the denial items, but I couldn't find a postrouting way to do it... experts help! :) Basically What I've got is: eth0 is the internet exposed side, eth1 is the internal (10.0.0.1) (Public IP's blocked over) iptables -F iptables -F -t nat iptables -X iptables -t nat -P POSTROUTING ACCEPT iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE iptables -A FORWARD -d localhost -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -d 10.0.0.1 -j ACCEPT #ENABLE EVERYONE ACCESS TO THE DNS SERVER iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -d 209.XXX.XXX.XXX -j MASQUERADE iptables -A FORWARD -d 209.XXX.XXX.XXX -j ACCEPT iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -s 209.XXX.XXX.XXX -j MASQUERADE iptables -A FORWARD -s 209.XXX.XXX.XXX -j ACCEPT #ENABLE EVERYONE ACCESS TO THE INTERNAL SIDE OF THIS MACHINE iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -d 10.0.01 -j MASQUERADE iptables -A FORWARD -d 10.0.01 -j ACCEPT iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -s 10.0.01 -j MASQUERADE iptables -A FORWARD -s 10.0.01 -j ACCEPT #ENABLE ACCESS TO amazon.com iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -d amazon.com -j MASQUERADE iptables -A FORWARD -d amazon.com -j ACCEPT iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -s amazon.com -j MASQUERADE iptables -A FORWARD -s amazon.com -j ACCEPT #END OF ENABLE ACCESS TO amazon.com #IF THEY STEP OUT OF THE WALL AND THEY'RE BROWSING, REDIRECT THEM TO THE LOCAL #THAT HAS ONLY A 404 ERROR SET TO DISPLAY A PAGE THAT SAYS THEY CAN ONLY GET TO AMAZON #THIS IS THE PROBLEM LINE iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to 10.0.0.1 #THIS IS THE PROBLEM LINE iptables -A INPUT -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -j DROP Thanks in advance! -David Talbot