Re: acess to loadbalanced services from inside the nat in an lvs-nat set up

[Brent Cook <busterb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4 Oct 2001, Douglas Elznic wrote:

> Hello,
>     we have an lvs nat setup. Real simple, one lvs nat box, two web
> servers, and a big db machine that handles various odds and ends
> services like mail as well as dbs(its primary function). We need our web
> servers to be able to send mail to local users (addresses on the db
> machine) My question is how do you access load balanced services from
> inside of the firewall. The connection just hangs forever...
> I am sure someone else has dealt with this before....

Simple answer - you can't. I believe that this is disallowed by design.

See:
http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/Joseph.Mack/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO-4.html#gotcha