Forwarding a port is not permitting one
DNAT rewrites the destination, masquerade rewrites the source — and neither does anything while the kernel declines to forward.
22 minutesTechnical content last reviewed on 21 Sept 2026
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What this lesson builds
- Configuring the network so it survives a reboot
- Knowing what the machine exposes, and closing the rest