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Howdy..
Scenario:
Client tries to connect to server "1.2.3.4:8080" via sockets, but I want it to connect to "localhost:8080" instead. My question is - is there a way to configure a firewall / router to redirect connections directed to certain host, to localhost? If not, are there other ways simpler than writing a system-wide sockets hook?
TIA :)
The simplest way (which I think will work for this) is to edit your Hosts file, which should be stored in %system32%\drivers\etc
By default it contains examples and explanations of how to add that kind of thing to it.
The hosts file is for resolving host names to IPs, not the other way around ;) so you cannot use it to redirect traffic sent to an IP address to a host name I'm afraid.
What type of router/firewall are you using?
Yeah, the hosts file won't do the trick this time, generally good idea though. I'm just using windows firewall and a motorola router.
No ideas anyone? If it's of any help, the client thats connection I want to intercept is written in Java.
Well, I got it sorted out. Eventually I just had to modify the original client a little bit to make it connect to localhost instead.
or maybe write a inject dll into which program u want to change host.
using hook connect.