[Openstack] Access an instance via its public (floating ip) from within the same instance

Kiall Mac Innes kiall at managedit.ie
Mon Oct 10 13:44:57 UTC 2011


Yep!  Their rules were simpler, and someone pointed the fix out to me ;)

I actually gave up on UEC as there were so many issues (at the time anyway!)

Kiall
On Oct 10, 2011 2:00 p.m., "Mark McLoughlin" <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 12:58 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 12:29 +0100, Kiall Mac Innes wrote:
> > > Hi Mark,
> > >
> > > That part I understand :) Consider these rules (nabbed from forum
> posting
> > > here<
> http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/forum/viewtopic.php?p=655&sid=76f8a08777176b9f939642734f2b23d0#655
> >
> > > ):
> > >
> > > iptables -t nat -A prerouting_rule -d WAN_IP -p tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT
> --to
> > > > 192.168.0.10
> > > > iptables -A forwarding_rule -p tcp --dport 80 -d 192.168.0.10 -j
> ACCEPT
> > > > iptables -t nat -A postrouting_rule -s 192.168.0.0/24 -p tcp --dport
> 80 -d
> > > > 192.168.0.10 -j MASQUERADE
> > >
> > >
> > > Some pretty "basic" iptables based router distro's like pfSense etc
> call
> > > this hairpin NAT or NAT reflection..
> >
> > Ah, I see - hairpin is basically adding a rule which snats (as well as
> > the standard dnat) connections from the private network to the public IP
> >
> > > And, I'm wondering if a similar technique is possible with the rules
> > > OS generates?
> >
> > It seems perfectly possible to me - you'd need to add something similar
> > to that last rule in ensure_floating_forward() in linux_vnet.py
> >
> > The only tricky bit is that you'll need to pass the fixed IP network's
> > cidr down from init_host_floating_ips() - I'm guessing it's available by
> > something like floating_ip['fixed_ip']['network']['cidr']
> >
> > If you've any trouble getting it working, at least file a bug in
> > launchpad - it sounds like a useful feature
>
> Hah, I see you filed a similar bug against Euca some time ago :)
>
>  https://bugs.launchpad.net/eucalyptus/+bug/676167
>
> Cheers,
> Mark.
>
>
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