[ale] potential iptables bug [was Re: sanity check]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Mon Dec 3 19:15:42 EST 2007


On Mon 2007-12-03 17:30:13 -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:

> So the bug appears to be in the DNAT mapping that is supposed to only
> change the destination IP but appears to also change the source IP.
>
> This failure occurs for ssh and mail and http. All internal machines
> report all incoming traffic and originating from the firewall and not
> From the real source.

can you show the output of:

 iptables -vnL

 iptables -t nat -vnL

on the firewall?  (if you feel the need to anonymize IP addresses,
that's fine, but please keep them distinct from one another --
i.e. don't rewrite 1.2.3.4 as X.X.X.X if you've already written
5.6.7.8 as X.X.X.X)

thanks,

   --dkg
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