It's because the IPTables rule is pointing to eth0 which binds to your internet IP. The localhost is bound to a loopback device (usually lo0 instead of eth0).
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 6:02 am Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 28, 2015, at 8:02 AM, Uomo di Carbone wrote: > > > I set up nodejs with express on my raspberry pi (Rpi) and pointed to > this domain: http://111001.cc:3000/ > > I'm not sure what you mean here by "pointed to this domain: > http://111001.cc:3000/";. I'm assuming you mean that the raspberry pi has > the public IP address that 111001.cc resolves to, and that your node app is > listening on port 3000? > > > I set ip tables to forward port 3000 to 80 as follows: > > iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT > --to-port 3000 > > > > I've got a couple of weird things happening. > > First of all I can not access the port 80 instance of http://111001.cc > locally on my pi but I can on another host. > > Why? > > That sounds like an iptables question (which I can't answer) > > > > Second. When I look at the access logs I am GET hits to another server I > had pointed to 111001.cc > > GET /downloads/moodledata/8/moddata/assignment/144/317/ 404 73.693 ms - > 965 > > > > Why? > > I'm not sure what you mean by "another server I had pointed to 111001.cc". > If you mean that you have another domain name that is set up as a CNAME to > 111001.cc, or another domain name with an A record pointing to the same IP > address that 111001.cc points to, then if your node app is listening on > that IP address and a particular port, then any requests coming in to that > IP address and port, regardless of if a domain or host name is used or what > that domain or host ame is, the node app will respond to those requests. > > -- > Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > New group rules: > https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md > Old group rules: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/774223FE-0540-4F6D-BC45-8886186AB655%40ryandesign.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/CAAWABXuo4k7ZxBz-M4B-sd%2B0wBvLronWqhjurWVtghRKpTK%3D2w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
