RE: port forwarding through localhost

[Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>]

>I am using 2.6.19.2.
>
>An intermediate tcp proxy method doesn't sound so nice, since iptables is
>way more flexible to me :-/

In fact, using such a proxy doubles the amount of packets transferred.

What you should have better done: use DNS instead of fixed IP addresses. That
way you could have had

  mysql IN A 127.0.0.1

before, and now change it noproblem to

  mysql IN A 192.168.123.45

But you have not, so better deal with it ;-)

        -`J'
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