Source IP address on connection from another pod changed to localhost

Networking
1

We are using istio 1.3.3 on an openshift 3.11 cluster. We have our own application deployed that uses TCP/IP connect all of our containers together. We have our own service that we have defined as follows:

kind: Service
apiVersion: v1
metadata:
  name: custom
  annotations:
    service.alpha.kubernetes.io/tolerate-unready-endpoints: true
spec:
  selector:
    app: custom
  publishNotReadyAddresses: true
  clusterIP: None
  ports:
    - protocol: TCP
      name: tcp-group
      port: 3100

Our application looks up the ‘custom’ service using DNS and then connects to other containers in the mesh that also have that service. Up until recently, when we did this the source IP on the socket connection correctly reflected one of the containers IP addresses (10.129.0.x, 10.128.1.x). Now something has changed and whenever one of the sockets connects in it has a source IP address of 127.0.0.1. We think that this is because the istio-proxy is intercepting the inbound service call and losing the source IP address, but we don’t know why this has changed.

Has anyone got any ideas?

2

No ideas anyone? Still having this issue. When we deploy our application without istio the source IP address is not altered. With istio it is changed to 127.0.0.1.