Re: forwarding outgoing packets

From: not availible (spywhere_at_whitehouse.gov)
Date: 02/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 07:56:06 +0000

On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 19:31:42 +0100, Nicola Gatti wrote:

> I have a linux machine on which a software sends packet to an address,is
> there a way of configuring the port forwarding on that machine so that the
> packets are sent to an address different from the one that the software
> believes?

Run your own DNS server to respond with the address you want used,
might work with just nslookup file also, but haven't tried it myself
that way.
If the software is hardcoded to a specific ip address, then you could
set up a second ip address but you better isolate it's traffic from going
outbound.
Robert

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