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In an attempt to learn more about the intricacies of NodeJS and securty. I am playing with communicating via raw TCP sockets via a TCP-to-TCP proxy that I've set up with net.createConnection().



In my playground I have the following setup: My Custom NodeJS Telnet Client > My NodeJS TCP-to-TCP Server Proxy > Server Requested by Telnet Client



What I have discovered is that with my Telnet Client that I can make a request to the proxy server for localhost:3306 and that my proxy server will connect me to the DB running on the proxy server. Of course, not good. It seems easy enough right? Block localhost, 127.0.0.1, etc... But it seems to me that I can never know what hostnames point to an internal address. For example, lndo.site is a public domain, but it publicly points to 127.0.0.1. This means that if this were a real-world application I would have to determine which hosts are safe to forward to. Is this even possible?



Is the only "safe" method to put the proxy on the server that has no other TCP services running? Can loopbacks be blocked?










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    In an attempt to learn more about the intricacies of NodeJS and securty. I am playing with communicating via raw TCP sockets via a TCP-to-TCP proxy that I've set up with net.createConnection().



    In my playground I have the following setup: My Custom NodeJS Telnet Client > My NodeJS TCP-to-TCP Server Proxy > Server Requested by Telnet Client



    What I have discovered is that with my Telnet Client that I can make a request to the proxy server for localhost:3306 and that my proxy server will connect me to the DB running on the proxy server. Of course, not good. It seems easy enough right? Block localhost, 127.0.0.1, etc... But it seems to me that I can never know what hostnames point to an internal address. For example, lndo.site is a public domain, but it publicly points to 127.0.0.1. This means that if this were a real-world application I would have to determine which hosts are safe to forward to. Is this even possible?



    Is the only "safe" method to put the proxy on the server that has no other TCP services running? Can loopbacks be blocked?










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      In an attempt to learn more about the intricacies of NodeJS and securty. I am playing with communicating via raw TCP sockets via a TCP-to-TCP proxy that I've set up with net.createConnection().



      In my playground I have the following setup: My Custom NodeJS Telnet Client > My NodeJS TCP-to-TCP Server Proxy > Server Requested by Telnet Client



      What I have discovered is that with my Telnet Client that I can make a request to the proxy server for localhost:3306 and that my proxy server will connect me to the DB running on the proxy server. Of course, not good. It seems easy enough right? Block localhost, 127.0.0.1, etc... But it seems to me that I can never know what hostnames point to an internal address. For example, lndo.site is a public domain, but it publicly points to 127.0.0.1. This means that if this were a real-world application I would have to determine which hosts are safe to forward to. Is this even possible?



      Is the only "safe" method to put the proxy on the server that has no other TCP services running? Can loopbacks be blocked?










      share|improve this question














      In an attempt to learn more about the intricacies of NodeJS and securty. I am playing with communicating via raw TCP sockets via a TCP-to-TCP proxy that I've set up with net.createConnection().



      In my playground I have the following setup: My Custom NodeJS Telnet Client > My NodeJS TCP-to-TCP Server Proxy > Server Requested by Telnet Client



      What I have discovered is that with my Telnet Client that I can make a request to the proxy server for localhost:3306 and that my proxy server will connect me to the DB running on the proxy server. Of course, not good. It seems easy enough right? Block localhost, 127.0.0.1, etc... But it seems to me that I can never know what hostnames point to an internal address. For example, lndo.site is a public domain, but it publicly points to 127.0.0.1. This means that if this were a real-world application I would have to determine which hosts are safe to forward to. Is this even possible?



      Is the only "safe" method to put the proxy on the server that has no other TCP services running? Can loopbacks be blocked?







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