I have a load balanced infrastructure which has an edge server as the load balancer and some web servers as backend servers and a cpanel server which is my ftp server. I want to forward ftp traffic through iptables to the ftp server which is behind my load balancer server. The scenario is as follows:
LB:
ens19: public_ip
ens18: 192.168.1.105
ftpserver:
eth0:192.168.1.110
the OS of LB is CentOS 7 and the OS of ftpserver is CentOS 6. I have disabled firewalld and installed iptables. the Rules for nat ftp traffic is as follows:
*filter
:INPUT DROP [0:0]
:FORWARD DROP [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
-A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
-A FORWARD -j LOG
-A FORWARD -i ens19 -o ens18 -p tcp --syn --dport 21 -m conntrack --ctstate NEW -j ACCEPT
-A FORWARD -i ens19 -o ens18 -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
-A FORWARD -i ens18 -o ens19 -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
*nat
:PREROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
-A PREROUTING -i ens19 -p tcp --dport 21 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.110:21
-A POSTROUTING -o ens18 -p tcp --dport 21 -d 192.168.1.110 -j SNAT --to-source 192.168.1.105
-A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.1.0/24 -o ens19 -j MASQUERADE
COMMIT
I also added the following line to iptables-config file:
IPTABLES_MODULES="ip_nat_ftp ip_conntrack_ftp"
and the net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1.
after I want to connect to ftp I get the following error:
$> ftp public_ip
Connected to public_ip.
220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] [TLS] ----------
220-You are user number 1 of 50 allowed.
220-Local time is now 11:19. Server port: 21.
220-This is a private system - No anonymous login
220-IPv6 connections are also welcome on this server.
220 You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Name (public_ip:sinai): ftp_user_name
331 User ss@mihankhabar.net OK. Password required
Password:
230 OK. Current restricted directory is /
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful
425 Could not open data connection to port 29806: Connection timed out
ftp>
I think login process is done completely and the problem is for transferring data. May you please help me to resolve this issue?
Thanks in advanced.