I am having a routing issue between vpc's and subnets. I am wondering is there a simple way, or steps, to work out what is blocking access i.e nacl's, sg's, route tables...
I come across this quite often and the only way I know to test is to telnet with port, but this is not super helpful, when it could be any of the above.
In this case specifically, I am trying to route from one(shared services) peered vpc through to another, and then to an instance in a subnet.
Here are some quick pointers :
Identify the source of the issue, check the route tables of the subnets with the resources that are impacted:
Public subnets
Confirm that the route table destination has a default route (0.0.0.0/0 for IPv4 and ::/0 for IPv6) that points to an internet gateway.
Subnets using NAT instances or NAT gateways
Under Subnets, choose your private subnet.
Choose the Route Table view, and confirm that the route table has a default route that points to a NAT instance or gateway.
Confirm that the NAT device is launched in a public subnet and perform the checks required for public subnets listed in the previous section.
Note: If you're using a NAT instance, be sure you've disabled the source destination check.
Subnets using VPC peering connections
Choose Peering Connections, and choose your peering connection
Confirm its status is Active.
From the navigation pane, choose Subnets, and choose the subnets of the Amazon VPC that you want to connect using a peering connection.
Choose the Route Tables view, and confirm that they have routes to CIDR with specific subnets or to the entire CIDR of the peered Amazon VPC, including the peering connection noted in step 2
Confirm that the route tables include all the subnets for the peered Amazon VPC.
Note: Confirm there are no invalid VPC peering connection configurations
You can read more about it here
Hope this helps!
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I have a hub and spoke model for infrastructure with a management vpc and 4-5 different environment vpc, peered to the management vpc.
I already have it set up but currently I only have 1 nat instance and 1 bastion host. Both of which are in the management vpc public subnet.
I wish to connect an instance in an environment vpc in a private subnet to this NAT instance to be able to reach the internet. Is that possible?
Note: I have the NAT/Bastion working correctly in the management vpc. I can reach all servers in both vpc with the Bastion host. I just can't get the above working.
My question is... is it possible? or do I need to set up an NAT in every vpc?
Edge to edge routing through a gateway (including the VPC Internet Gateway or IGW) is an unsupported VPC configuration with VPC peering.
Example: Edge to Edge Routing Through an Internet Gateway
Let's say you have a VPC peering connection between VPC A and VPC B (pcx-abababab). VPC A has an internet gateway; VPC B does not. Edge to edge routing is not supported; you cannot use VPC A to extend the peering relationship to exist between VPC B and the internet. For example, traffic from the internet can’t directly access VPC B by using the internet gateway connection to VPC A.
Similarly, if VPC A has a NAT device that provides internet access to instances in private subnets in VPC A, instances in VPC B cannot use the NAT device to access the internet.
Transit Gateway seems to fit for the case.
Transit Gateway Example: Centralized Router
The following diagram shows the key components of the configuration for this scenario. In this scenario, there are three VPC attachments and one Site-to-Site VPN attachment to the transit gateway. Packets from the subnets in VPC, A, VPC B, and VPC C that have the internet as a destination, route first through the transit gateway and then route to the VPN.
I have currently three tomcat servers running off of Apache which listens to certain IP address each on one machine to redirect to certain routes. I want to move them up to AWS VPC for higher redundancy. Can i have three NICs on an instance that act the same as my prem version? How do i get the NAT up and running like my router does for the websites?
example:
eth0 = root.test.com 192.168.0.20/32 to 81.100.10.2,
eth1 = stage.test.com 192.168.0.21/32 to 81.100.10.3,
eth2 = test.root.com 92.168.0.22/32 to 81.100.10.4
You can create and attach more than one EIN per instance. See limits here:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-eni.html#AvailableIpPerENI
You can then route to these ENIs however you like, just reference them in your route tables. Recall each VPC has a default route table, but you can have additional route tables at the subnet level. Create two subnets one public, one private, place your NAT Gateway on your public subnet, and route all internet traffic from the private subnet through your NAT Gateway.
For a subnet to be public, we need to attach an Internet Gateway (IGW) to the VPC and update the route table of the public subnet to send non-local traffic to the IGW.
The link explains that need to use NAT Gateway for the public subnet to make it possible to access the internet and the lambda function access the RDS instance. First does it realy have to be NAT Gateway can't use instead a Internet Gateway for that purpose?
Second have two Route Tables one named PublicNetwork that haves two subnets and the route haves one Internet Gateway,
the second Route Table that haves only one subnet called PrivateNetwork.
when had only one Route Table with all 3 subnets could access the rds (db) instance with Microsoft SQL Server Management (security group with inbound rules of type MS SQL and Source my ip address) now with the changes can't access anymore.
My database in RDS haves in Subnet group my default-vpc that haves the 3 subnets is it needed to create another vpc and transfer the private subnet to it to be able to access my database again?
All subnets in a VPC can communicate with each other
An Internet Gateway connects the VPC to the Internet
Any subnet that has a Route Table pointing 0.0.0.0/0 to the Internet Gateway is called a Public Subnet (because it can directly communicate with the Internet)
Any subnet that does not have such a Route table entry is called a Private Subnet
If a resource in a private subnet needs to communicate with the Internet, it must send the network traffic via a NAT Gateway in the Public Subnet. The NAT Gateway will forward the traffic to the Internet, then return any response that is received.
If you are having difficulty connecting to resources within the same VPC, then the Security Group is the most likely cause of the problem.
Our aim is to get our Elastic Beanstalk setups to route traffic through a NAT gateway as we require for certain traffic connecting to API's which require IP whitelisting. Rather than make modifications to the current setup, I have created a separate/isolated VPC & EC2 instance to familiarise and test the setup. However I am yet to get the setup working as desired.
Here is the setup
VPC (vpc-77049811) with CIDR of 10.0.0.0/16
Internet gateway (igw-4d4b212a) assigned to mentioned VPC
Subnet (subnet-096d8a53) with CIDR of 10.0.1.0/24
NAT Gateway (nat-00bb49204627de7e6) attached to mentioned subnet and assigned Elastic IP
Route table attached to mentioned VPC and associate with mentioned subnet
1x EC2 Instance assigned to VPC and its own Elastic IP and Disabled Source/Destination Check
Route Table Setup
10.0.0.0/16 local
0.0.0.0/0 igw-4d4b212a
With the above setup, and am able to log into the server and make a curl request to get the servers public IP address (curl icanhazip.com). As soon as I add a rule to the route table for the url's resolved IP's to route through the NAT gateway though, I am unable to ping or request the curl request as it will timeout.
Rules added to route table which do not work
45.63.64.111/32 nat-00bb49204627de7e6
144.202.71.30/32 nat-00bb49204627de7e6
Not sure if I've overlooked something here or maybe I have misunderstood the concept and use cases for the NAT gateway?
This is public IP 45.63.64.111. You need IGW to reach to this traffic.
You either do that by directly redirecting your traffic to IGW
OR
You do that by directing to NAT then further directing that traffic to IGW
Directing to IGW part is missing.
Nat gateway is used for EC2 in private subnets (which does not have IGW attached to it). In scenario above, EC2 is in public subnet so ideally it does not need NAT.
Here is what I would do to use NAT-
1. Place EC2 in private subent. and have a Route table where all outgoing traffic to nat-gateway.
2. Nat-gateway which is in public subnet will forward your traffic to IGW.
It seems like you have misunderstood the purpose of a NAT.
Its purpose is to provide outbound internet access to instances in a private subnet without allowing any inbound connectivity - i.e. a subnet where the routing table does NOT have an entry for:
0.0.0.0/0 igw-4d4b212a
If you want to restrict access from your EC2 instance to specific IP addresses, put your NAT in the public subnet, create a private subnet, and put your instance in the private subnet. Then add the two routes to the route table associated with the private subnet:
45.63.64.111/32 nat-00bb49204627de7e6
144.202.71.30/32 nat-00bb49204627de7e6
If you simply want to restrict access of your EC2 instance to a couple of IP addresses, you can only create routes for those addresses:
45.63.64.111/32 igw-4d4b212a
144.202.71.30/32 igw-4d4b212a
Be aware that with this last option, your instance can be reached from the internet if you have rules open in your security groups.
I'm putting the instances behind the aws loadbalancer, I have configured the routable and attached the IGW to it, created the loadbalancer and added this instance to the aws loadbalancer every things work well, the endpoint URL of the AWS loadbalancer able to load the HTTP pages
Now i have removed the IGW from the route table and tested it again, the AWS loadbalalncer endpoint URL not able to load the page, but the instace status shows in AWS loadbalancer as inService
Why the IGW is required when loadbalancer is configured over private subnet, it technically Mean it's a public subnet, which is blocking me to create a NAT inatance
A subnet without a default route pointing to the igw-xxxxxxxx Internet Gateway object is, by definition, a private subnet. If you remove the igw from a public subnet, you now have a private subnet.
Placing an Internet-facing load balancer (ELB) in such a private subnet is incorrect.
It sounds as though you are making a commonly-made -- but incorrect -- assumption that the ELB should be configured in the same subnets as the instances behind it. This is also incorrect.
Provision the ELB in public subnets, without regard to the subnets the instances behind it were placed in.
In summary:
Internet-facing ELB requires a public subnet for placement.
NAT instance requires a public subnet for placement.
The instances that use these services (NAT and ELB) belong in different -- private -- subnets, different subnets than the ELB and NAT instances.
ELB and NAT can be placed together in the same subnets, or separately, as long as the subnets are public (have the IGW as their default route) and are in the same availability zones.
I believe you cannot do anything without the IGW attached to the routing table where the subnet is attached to.
Another way to do this is to spin off a NAT instance(can be found in AWS marketplace) in the public subnet, add it to your private route table where your original instance is on (0.0.0.0/0 - instanceid) all the traffic will be routed through the NAT instance.
Here mainly we have to see two things, provided subnet for the elasticloadbalancer is public or private.
Every VPC should have one IGW to connect to the public, every trafic should go through the IGW only. If VPC connected to the IGW, IGW distribute internet to the all instance which are in that VPC, if route table changed to the particular rt, internet traffic can send to only that instance. Here in ELB instance is in service because both are in the same VPC and can communicate each other means checks the status. This IGW will work main role when we are using the NAT.
Always we provide ip range for the IGW or rt as 0.0.0.0/0, it represents as public.
The following link will explain more : http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonVPC/latest/UserGuide/VPC_Scenario2.html
This small explanation might be helpful for someone.
Let me cover your two questions
the AWS loadbalalncer endpoint URL not able to load the page, but the instace status shows in AWS loadbalancer as inService
This is the default behaviour of load balancer , since internally load balancer and your instance may be in the same VPC so they are able to communicate that is why loadbalancer is showing inService status.
Second question Why the IGW is required when loadbalancer is configured over private subnet, it technically Mean it's a public subnet, which is blocking me to create a NAT inatance
You need IGW if you want to access any resources especially EC2 , Loadbalancer from internet. however if you put your load balancer in private subnet it means IGW is not associated with the subnet having loadbalancer in it and hence this load balancer is not accessible outside your VPC that is reason that you were not able to load your page.
NAT instance is usually used when you want your private subnet instances should be able to initiate request over internet and has nothing to do with normal load balancing setup unless and untill you want dont want to install any updates from internet to your instance.
You are trying to access webpage publicly and removing the route entry IGW from the loadbalncer subnet.
The Subnet without IGW will become Private, Hence you can't access it.
First, a subnet with route table that route traffic via the internet gateway (IGW) is a public subnet. An IGW is required because the subnets created in AWS VPC are internal IPs and as internal IPs are not routable via the internet, traffic to and fro EC2 instances that belongs to an internal IP needs a way to complete these request. This is where an IGW comes into play. The IGW allows your EC2 instance to make outbound request to the internet and allows other user/client to make inbound request to your ec2 instance.
A public subnet are group of IPs (called subnets) in your VPC that allows internet traffic to and fro your ec2 instance. A subnet without an Internet gateway is a private subnet. As you already guess no traffic is allowed in or out.
That said, instances in VPC which are in Private subnet still need to initiate an outbound request to the internet to download software or perform update. In this case you have to create and attach a NAT gateway or NAT instance to the private subnet. NAT Gateway and NAT instance only allow outbound traffic to the internet but not the the other way round. In some cases you might want your production EC2 to be in the private subnet and ELB in public subnet for security reason.
ELB usually belong to the public subnet so it reachable from the internet as is your case as well.
TO answer some of your question - when you deleted the IGW from the route table, your ELB automatically becomes a private subnet as such your web page stops loading.
Also, you could still see the ec2 instance behind the ELB as InService even when you deleted the IGW because the ELB and EC2 instance can communicate via the internal IP as they are in same network or VPC.
The ELB needs a route to the internet in order to send you the response over internet.. As simple as that.
Configure your ELB in public subnet, regardless of where your instances are present.
Basically there are two types of load balancers.
1)Internal
2) External
Internal load balancers are those which are launched in a private subnet which will be accessible only internally by the instances on same vpc of the internal elb
External load balancers are which are accessible over the internet which should be launched in a subnet which has internet gateway attached to it and which has route table configured properly to route the requests.
If you attach an internet gateway to a subnet it becomes a public subnet.Also if you create a load-balancer which you need to be accessible from internet it should be a External load balancer and aws will not allow it launch in a private subnet.The instances are showing in service because its communicating internally using private ip-address.