port-forwarding problem

Linux howto's, compile information, information on whatever we learned on working with linux, MACOs and - of course - Products of the big evil....
Post Reply
User avatar
^rooker
Site Admin
Posts: 1481
Joined: Fri Aug 29, 2003 8:39 pm

port-forwarding problem

Post by ^rooker »

[PROBLEM]
Services on computer behind firewall are not reachable from outside, although iptables are properly routing ports through.
Also, this computer is perfectly available from the firewall and other "internal" IPs.

[SOLUTION]
Check if the unavailable computer has the correct gateway set.

In my case, I had a wrong route option set for THIS machine only, so all answers to requests routed through from outside could not find their way back to "the world".
Post Reply