On 11/10/2013 4:56 AM, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am running a server with one external NIC and a bridge that serves a bunch 
> of lxc containers.
> 
> That bridge/NIC masqerades as the external NIC via a masq file entry.
> 
> One of the lxc containers runs nginx and ports 80 and 443 from the external 
> NIC are DNATed to that container.
> 
> If I now try to use e.g the https URL of the EPEL repository from within one 
> of the lxc containers, I get 
>> Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: epel. Please verify its
>> path and try again
> 
> Changing the corresponding URL to "http" rather than "https" makes a yum 
> call go through just fine. 
> 
> Is the firewalling setup to blame for this and if yes how to fix it?
> 

Not enough information to say. Which URL are you using? What does the
DNS name resolve to? Are you getting any 'Shorewall' messages when you
try to connect?

It would be best if you forwarded the output of 'shorewall dump' along
with the information requested at
http://www.shorewall.net/support.htm#Guidelines.

-Tom
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