GitHub user remibergsma opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1214
Setup routes for RFC 1918 ip space Setup general route for RFC 1918 space, as otherwise it will be sent to the public gateway and likely to be dropped (internet providers do not route ip space that is meant for internal use). More specific routes that may be set have preference over this generic routes so this works even with private ranges used for public ip space (as shown below). When using an internal DNS server some hosts may resolve to an RFC 1918 ip address. The SSVM has a default gw to public so if it has no route for this ip address space, it will not work. This PR makes generic RFC 1918 (so all internal ip adresses like 10.0.0.10 etc) to the local management gateway. This makes them reachable. Without this fix, it is sent upstream and it is dropped there. Should there be a more generic route (smaller prefix), this has preference over the generic routes. Example in my dev environment: ``` root@v-1-VM:~# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 0.0.0.0 192.168.23.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth2 10.0.0.0 192.168.22.1 255.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 172.16.0.0 192.168.22.1 255.240.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 192.168.0.0 192.168.22.1 255.255.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 192.168.22.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 192.168.23.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth2 ``` Route `192.168.0.0/16` goes via `eth1` but `192.168.23.0/24` is more specific and has preference and goes via `eth2`. It works: ``` root@v-1-VM:~# ping 8.8.8.8 PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 48 data bytes 56 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=49 time=7.179 ms ^C--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 7.179/7.179/7.179/0.000 ms ``` This solves a lot of the 'internal resolving' issues we face. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/remibergsma/cloudstack rfc1918_route Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/1214.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #1214 ---- commit 155c16b67624d3a7babe796c0e7152771028d978 Author: Remi Bergsma <git...@remi.nl> Date: 2015-12-10T16:50:45Z Setup routes for RFC 1918 ip space Setup general route for RFC 1918 space, as otherwise it will be sent to the public gateway and not work. More specific routes that may be set have preference over this generic routes. ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---