Recently I was trying to redirect traffic on the localhost though for different reasons. I finally came to the conclusion that localhost packets aren't prerouted. Can anyone confirm this? al On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 15:14, Alexander Samad wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 01:10:21PM -0700, Ben Yerushalmi wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to redirect traffic on my DNS server. I have bind listening > > on port 5300 (UDP) instead of 53. I've got it working from the internal > > network but seem to have problem on redirecting localhost traffic. I've > > tried changing both PREROUTING and OUTPUT chains in the nat table but it > > doesn't seem to help. > > > > iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -p udp -i lo --dport domain -j REDIRECT > > --to-ports 5300 > > > > and > > > > iptables -A OUTPUT -t nat -p udp -d localhost --dport domain -j > > REDIRECT --to-ports 5300 > might be of target but will the destination be localhost or the real ip > address ? > > A > > > > > > > Anyone have luck doing this? What am I missing? > > > > Thanks, > > Ben > > > > > > > >
