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conf: Don't map DNS traffic to host, if host gateway is a resolver

This should be a relatively common case and I'm a bit surprised it's
been broken since I added the "gateway mapping" functionality, but it
doesn't happen with Podman, and not with systemd-resolved or similar
local proxies, and also not with servers where typically the gateway
is just a router and not a DNS resolver. That could be the reason why
nobody noticed until now.

By default, we'll map the address of the default gateway, in
containers and guests, to represent "the host", so that we have a
well-defined way to reach the host. Say:

  0.0029:     NAT to host 127.0.0.1: 192.168.100.1

But if the host gateway is also a DNS resolver:

  0.0029: DNS:
  0.0029:     192.168.100.1

then we'll send DNS queries directed to it to the host instead:

  0.0372: Flow 0 (INI): TAP [192.168.100.157]:41892 -> [192.168.100.1]:53 => ?
  0.0372: Flow 0 (TGT): INI -> TGT
  0.0373: Flow 0 (TGT): TAP [192.168.100.157]:41892 -> [192.168.100.1]:53 => HOST [0.0.0.0]:41892 -> [127.0.0.1]:53
  0.0373: Flow 0 (UDP flow): TGT -> TYPED
  0.0373: Flow 0 (UDP flow): TAP [192.168.100.157]:41892 -> [192.168.100.1]:53 => HOST [0.0.0.0]:41892 -> [127.0.0.1]:53
  0.0373: Flow 0 (UDP flow): Side 0 hash table insert: bucket: 31049
  0.0374: Flow 0 (UDP flow): TYPED -> ACTIVE
  0.0374: Flow 0 (UDP flow): TAP [192.168.100.157]:41892 -> [192.168.100.1]:53 => HOST [0.0.0.0]:41892 -> [127.0.0.1]:53

which doesn't quite work, of course:

  0.0374: pasta: epoll event on UDP reply socket 95 (events: 0x00000008)
  0.0374: ICMP error on UDP socket 95: Connection refused

unless the host is a resolver itself... but then we wouldn't find the
address of the gateway in its /etc/resolv.conf, presumably.

Fix this by making an exception for DNS traffic: if the default
gateway is a resolver, match on DNS traffic going to the default
gateway, and explicitly forward it to the configured resolver.

Reported-by: Prafulla Giri <prafulla.giri@protonmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Stefano Brivio 2025-02-03 09:22:10 +01:00
parent 864be475d9
commit a3d142a6f6
2 changed files with 20 additions and 10 deletions

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conf.c
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@ -426,10 +426,12 @@ static void add_dns_resolv(struct ctx *c, const char *nameserver,
if (IN4_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED(&c->ip4.dns_host))
c->ip4.dns_host = ns4;
/* Guest or container can only access local addresses via
* redirect
/* Special handling if guest or container can only access local
* addresses via redirect, or if the host gateway is also a
* resolver and we shadow its address
*/
if (IN4_IS_ADDR_LOOPBACK(&ns4)) {
if (IN4_IS_ADDR_LOOPBACK(&ns4) ||
IN4_ARE_ADDR_EQUAL(&ns4, &c->ip4.map_host_loopback)) {
if (IN4_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED(&c->ip4.map_host_loopback))
return;
@ -445,10 +447,12 @@ static void add_dns_resolv(struct ctx *c, const char *nameserver,
if (IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED(&c->ip6.dns_host))
c->ip6.dns_host = ns6;
/* Guest or container can only access local addresses via
* redirect
/* Special handling if guest or container can only access local
* addresses via redirect, or if the host gateway is also a
* resolver and we shadow its address
*/
if (IN6_IS_ADDR_LOOPBACK(&ns6)) {
if (IN6_IS_ADDR_LOOPBACK(&ns6) ||
IN6_ARE_ADDR_EQUAL(&ns6, &c->ip6.map_host_loopback)) {
if (IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED(&c->ip6.map_host_loopback))
return;

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passt.1
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@ -941,10 +941,16 @@ with destination 127.0.0.10, and the default IPv4 gateway is 192.0.2.1, while
the last observed source address from guest or namespace is 192.0.2.2, this will
be translated to a connection from 192.0.2.1 to 192.0.2.2.
Similarly, for traffic coming from guest or namespace, packets with
destination address corresponding to the \fB\-\-map-host-loopback\fR
address will have their destination address translated to a loopback
address.
Similarly, for traffic coming from guest or namespace, packets with destination
address corresponding to the \fB\-\-map-host-loopback\fR address will have their
destination address translated to a loopback address.
As an exception, traffic identified as DNS, originally directed to the
\fB\-\-map-host-loopback\fR address, if this address matches a resolver address
on the host, is \fBnot\fR translated to loopback, but rather handled in the same
way as if specified as \-\-dns-forward address, if no such option was given.
In the common case where the host gateway also acts a resolver, this avoids that
the host mapping shadows the gateway/resolver itself.
.SS Handling of local traffic in pasta