Re: Reach dmz host from within dmz zone with public ip address

Tuomo Soini <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.shorewall
Organization Foobar Oy
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 07:49:25 +0000
"Nicola Ferrari (#554252)" <[email protected]> wrote:

> We can reach webserver without any issue using public ip 1.2.3.4 from 
> loc and net zone, but not from dmz itself.
> (Connection goes timeout)
> 
> Also, dmz host can surf any other net host, except from its own
> public ip address.
> 
> shorewall show log doesn't show anything interesting..
> 
> What am I missing?

https://shorewall.org/FAQ.htm#faq2

Because you likely have limited number of servers in dmz, you can give
your names proper internal addresses by setting their real (not public)
addresses in /etc/hosts on all servers so that packets won't go to
firewall.

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