On April 21, 2005 04:24 pm, Mark Wells wrote:
> Apologies if this is an RTFM but I have searched and found nothing.
>
> The problem:
>
> We're doing NAT (DNAT) on our firewall from a valid outside ip to a
> machine on our private network which is handling mail. So the rule looks
> like this:
>
> /usr/sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i $EXTERNAL -d 72.11.67.10 -p tcp
> --destination-port 25 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.8:25
>
> /usr/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -i $EXTERNAL -d 192.168.1.8 --dport
> 25 -j ACCEPT
>
> $EXTERNAL being eth1 our "outside" interface. There is also a $INTERNAL
> which corresponds to eth0 - the interface on out private network.
>
> Pretty standard stuff.
>
> So NAT works great for incoming mail, and we have similar rules for POP3,
> IMAP, etc. All works great from outside.
>
> The problem comes when we try to hit the mail server (by going to that
> outside ip), from a machine that's already on the private network. So for
> example if I telnet to port 25 on 72.11.67.10 from my personal machine
> which is on 192.168.1.34 I get nothing. According to my reading of the
> rule, any packets that come from the outside bound for port 25 on the
> 72.11.67.10 should be NATted to 192.168.1.8. Which they are if they come
> from the outside. Why shouldn't it work if packets try to hit port 25 on
> 72.11.67.10 from the private network then?
<Bulk snippage>
Basically your problem is this. Works from outside. Come inside and the
system contacts the firewall correctly, gets redirected to the correct inside
server ****** and the inside server replies directly to the inside pc *******
and said packet (reply) is not related to anything the inside pc is aware of.
Ta DAH!
Now -- to solve.
write a rule that takes the connections coming from inside ONLY that are
headed OUT of your firewall (on the way to the mailserver) and SNAT (Source
Nats) them to the inside ip of the firewall ... this way the mailserver (or
whatever else) replies back to firewall and firewall sends it to inside ip.
(I'm NOT guarranteeing syntax here I'm TIRED)
iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -p tcp -s ${lan_ip_range} -d
${lan_ip_of_mailserver} \ --dport ${mail} -j SNAT --to-source
${lan_ip_of_firewall}
although it worked for me. -- FYI the reason for the -s filter there is so
that internet traffic connections ARE NOT SNATted on the way in -- thus when
you only see connections from the firewall to the mail server in the logs you
know it was someone on the inside of the lan ...
-- off to bed with me.
Alistair Tonner
>
> Appreciated as always,
>
> Mark
