[Lxc-users] Redirect localhost requests to a Linux container

[Shibashish]

Are you sure your service is listening on localhost:<port> ?

I'd use "netstat" to verify that first.

ShiB.
while ( ! ( succeed = try() ) );


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Robin Monjo <robin.monjo at applidget.com>wrote:

> Hello, I'm struggling with port forwarding for requests coming from
> localhost.
>
>  I run some linux container on my ubuntu host. Each one of them are
> running a webapp. To be able to access these webapps, I use iptables to
> forward port:
>
> sudo iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport <port> -j DNAT --to-destination #<container_ip>:<port>
>
> This work well if the traffic comes from outside of my machine. If the
> request is done by localhost it doesn't work:
>   curl <host_ip>:<port> #works (from outside the host)
>
>  curl <container_ip>:<port>  #works (from inside the host)
>  curl 127.0.0.1:<port>       #doesn't work (from inside the host)
>
>
> Any clue how to be able to make this last curl command working ?
>
> Regards,
> Robin
>
>
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