Security :: IPTables Layered Chains - Create Rules For Certain Services Like Xmpp / Web
Jan 16, 2010
I want to simplify some of my rules, so I want to create rules for certain services like xmpp, web, etc. since some of them use multiple ports, and I toggle them on/off a lot. Can I simply put the jump to rule clauses in the Input chain, and once the sub chains run, does it return to the input chain after the jump to rule clause? I want to do this so I don't have a ton of rules in the input chain. I think that if I simply make a list of all the rules to jump to in the input chain, it will work itself through all of them until it finds a matching filter in one of them correct?
I've read the instruction about setting up the iptables rules to filter all port except HTTP, SSH, FTP. I require first remove all default iptables rules and set default rules to all chains as DROP: # Set default-deny policies for all three default chains $IPTABLES -P INPUT DROP $IPTABLES -P FORWARD DROP $IPTABLES -P OUTPUT DROP
Then allow only some ports: #Accept inbound packets that are part of previously-OK'ed sessions $IPTABLES -A INPUT -j ACCEPT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED # Accept inbound packets which initiate SSH sessions $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp -j ACCEPT --dport 22 -m state --state NEW # Accept inbound packets which initiate FTP sessions $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp -j ACCEPT --dport 21 -m state --state NEW # Accept inbound packets which initiate HTTP sessions $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp -j ACCEPT --dport 80 -m state --state NEW # Log anything not accepted above $IPTABLES -A INPUT -j LOG --log-prefix "Dropped by default:"
But I hired a VPS from other country so the only mean I can manage it is via SSH. If I setup the default rule to DROP first, I afraid that I can no longer connect via SSH to tell iptables allow SSH So my question is: - Does the IP tables take effect immediately after I input a rule? - Is there any mean to run this as a batch job (create a script and run all these rules one time). - My VPS has a web control panel which have a terminal via web. Is this a native terminal or just a connection via port 80 or 22?
I am trying to program iptable rules for implementing a 1:1 NAT which does the following:
1. Forward all traffic from all ports on a public ip to a private ip 2. Forward traffic from a range of ports (x-->y) on a public ip, to a private ip
I did some google searches for the same, and came up with the following.
iptables -A FORWARD -t filter -o eth0 -m state state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -t filter -i eth0 -m state state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
Can someone please let me know strong iptables rules? Below entries are in iptables file.Here Y.Y.Y.Y is another branch public IP.This server acts as gateway+squid server.Further it will serve company's intranet page also using httpd.OS is CentOS 5.0.
I am setting my firewall rules using the command iptables.My question is i wanna know what command i can use that list rule 2 and 3 for instance in my table?i want to create rule that: The host is administered using SSH, scp and sftp so allow incoming SSH traffic and securing remote file copying and transferring.
When I use system-config-firewall, it asks what interfaces to trust. Where does it store that information for iptables (or whatever uses that info)? How iptables knows at what interfaces to use the rules?There is not that kind of information in /etc/sysconf/iptables and iptables-config.
I need with some iptables rules. I've done all I can, Googling all over, to cover as many exploits as possible and the following script is what I've come up with. The current set up works and I've checked with NMAP. I just need some sort of confirmation that this is pretty much what I can do.
Code:
LAN="eth0 eth1" RANGE=10.1.0.0/17 WAN=eth2 # Delete all existing rules
[code]....
Also, if I wanted a broadcast to be relayed to all subnets within a defined range, how would such a iptables rule look like? I need this in order to find a networked Canon MP640 printer.
### flush / drop policy sets echo "[+] Flushing existing rules with DEFAULT of DROP [+]" echo "[+] IPv4 [+]" $IPT -F $IPT -F -t nat $IPT -X $IPT -P INPUT DROP $IPT -P OUTPUT DROP $IPT -P FORWARD DROP
echo "[+] IPv6 [+]" $IPT6 -F $IPT6 -F -t nat $IPT6 -X $IPT6 -P INPUT DROP $IPT6 -P OUTPUT DROP $IPT6 -P FORWARD DROP ..... ###OUTPUT rules: LOG rule $IPT -A OUTPUT -o ! lo -j LOG --log-prefix "DROPED OUTBOUND" --log-ip-options --log-tcp-options
I wanted to know how to allow certain applications through the outbound tables. For example, I wish to be able to use tools such as nmap,tracepath, and traceroute. However, I am not sure where to look to understand the ports to open. I was starting to think that maybe rather than ports to open it would need to be somehthing like tcp flags that would ned to be allowed. Any way, I have tried google and am still haing problems. I started wanting to use these tools due to getting ready for my network+ and security+ certs.
I have been trying to figure out how to makes rules in iptables that expire after a certain amount of time. From what I have found online you want to use the recent module with --rcheck and --seconds. I have found a few examples and have given them a shot but I can't seem to get it right. Would anyone mind posting an example of a rule that will auto expire?
I've configured squid proxy server in a P4 desktop. I've 50 users in my network. I installed RHEL 4.4 (2.6.9-42 kernel) and the iptables version is 1.2.11-3.1. I've 2 NICs installed in the system. eth0 (192.168.100.99) for local lan and eth1 (192.168.1.2) for outgoing to internet. I've connected DSL broadband modem to eth1 (default ip of DSL modem is 192.168.1.1). All the clients except few has been forced to go through squid by user authentication to access internet. Those clients which were kept away from proxy are 192.168.100.253, 192.168.100.97, 192.168.100.95 and 192.168.100.165. Everything works fine but from last week I observed that one of some notorious user use the direct IPs (192.168.100.97 or 192.168.100.95) in the absense of the owner of these IPs to gain access to internet as we applied download/upload restrictions in squid.
I want to filter the packets of source hosts using MAC address in PREROUTING chain. I read somewhere that IPT_MAC module must be installed to make this happen. So that those notorious users can not change their ips to gain direct access to internet.
Below are the contents of my iptables file (I've ommited few entries for safty purpose).
# Generated by iptables-save v1.2.11 on Wed Nov 25 16:35:57 2009 *filter :INPUT ACCEPT [14274:3846787] :FORWARD ACCEPT [4460:1241297] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [16825:4872475] code....
I was wondering if there is a way to find out IP blocks based on a given region. I know there are IP Lookups that will tell you what Country and possibly City a given IP is from. What I want is the following:
- I would like to set up a IPTABLES rule that implements something like:
=> ALLOW VPN connections FROM THIS ISP/IP BLOCKS THAT ARE IN CITY XYZ
Basically, I want to limit my incoming VPN connections FROM my ISP in the surrounding area. So, for example, I can go to my friends house who also has the same ISP. I should be able to connect from his home to mine because we have 1) same ISP 2) IP blocks is confined to a particular local location.
can i actually edit /etc/sysconfig/iptables and create/delete rules inside that file?will it work? i just find using the IPTABLES -A or -D command a hassle
I have setup my linux fedora server and i want to restrict access to my server.Basically i control using iptables.I'm not sure how to write an iptables rules to control drop all connection to port 8080 and allow only certain ip can access the instance on port 8080 example ip=10.254.14.16,192.168.1.10.
I am setting up tomcat server on my Centos 5.5 machine. I've been advised to run tomcat on 8080 as non root user and redirect traffic to it from port 80.
I searched and found the following iptables commands for this:# iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT -to-ports 8080 # iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 8080 -j ACCEPTI have a doubt:
Tomcat is not accessible via port 80 without the second command. But the second command opens 8080 and makes it accessible over the internet (tomcat is accesible via both: www.<website>.com and http://<ip address>:8080). This doesn't seem right. Is there some simple (iptables) way to redirect traffic "internally" from port 80 to 8080 without having to open 8080 to the internet.
I'm having problems with hackers from across the globe trying to get into our servers. Why? i have no clue. nothing of value in my servers worth getting.
Right now my service only does business with USA. So I'm trying to find a way to block all Non USA traffic. I called my hosting provider and they are unable to help. Said it was up to me to do this.
Well I've already taken care of the TCP Wrappers. by spawning a small C program i made that uses MaxMind's GeoIP system. to automatically deny access. Now i need to do something about all the other network connections that come in to services that do not use the TCP wrappers.
So i was wondering if IPTABLES have a way to spawn a sub proccess like TCP wrappers or if there was any other firewall software out there for linux that would let me achieve my goal.
I need to create filename 70-android.rules in the directory /etc/udev/rules.d/I have Adm privileges in my user account properties, but when I use sudo to create this file the Ubuntu OS does not allow me the privilege... I am running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and here's the Terminal output below:daddy@gatomon-laptop:/etc/udev/rules.d$ sudo cat > 70-android.rulesbash: 70-android.rules: Permission denieddaddy@gatomon-laptop:/etc/udev$ ls -ltotal 8drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-03-16 18:03 rules.d-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 218 2010-04-19 04:30 udev.conf
I added a few rules to my /etc/iptables.rules file and then used sudo iptables-restore < /etc/iptables.rules but i got an error saying "iptables-restore: line 29 failed".But the only word on that line.
I just install 1 firewall using Iptables. Firewall includes 2 NIC: NIC1 <IP PUBLIC> NIC2 192.168.10.1 I installed 1 web server IP: 192.168.10.2 I have some PC IP range: 192.168.10.10->20
I set rules NAT on firewall and PC & web server can connect internet good, but I have problems: When PC access to web server with IP 192.168.10.2 that ok, but PC can't access to web server when using IP Public. But outside internet, I can access to web server using IP Public.
Rules on IPTables Code: # Generated by iptables-save v1.3.5 on Sun Mar 7 21:01:16 2010 *nat :PREROUTING ACCEPT [950:126970] :POSTROUTING ACCEPT [89:5880] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [19:1342] -A PREROUTING -d 209.99.242.124 -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.10.2:80 -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.10.0/24 -o eth0 -j SNAT --to-source 209.99.242.124 *filter :INPUT DROP [1599:157409] :FORWARD DROP [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [232:34452] -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -d 192.168.10.2 -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i eth1 -j ACCEPT -A OUTPUT -o lo -j ACCEPT -A OUTPUT -o eth1 -j ACCEPT COMMIT
I'm having some trouble with the configuration of the iptables. I want to setup a network server to serve as Fail Over (for my 2 ISPs), DHCP and DNS. I have 3 network cards, 2 connected to ISP's routers and 1 that serves as UPLINK for my switch.
I want to add some Iptables rules so I can achieve what I want to do. The problem is that the rules I try to use, they have to effect.... they don't load, here are the rules I am trying to add:
I am trying solve a strange problem which ocurred after upgrading many packages including kernel and iptables.This is a Fedora 10 PC acting as a small home-server I've been using over a year without problems. Recently, I've run a yum upgrade and after that, connections outside home wouldn't work. No changes in IPtables (firewall) rules have been done. But connection through local network is working.Symptom is.I've connected to my second PC at home and connected to the server. It works fine on local network. I restart network services (service network restart) and outside connections could be established.I have disabled iptables and ip6tables and after reboots it works fine. But PC is running without firewall.
I set up a squid transparent proxy and I have a problem with an iptable rules. I have a rule to redirect all request to port 80 to go on port 3128. To do so, I'm using this iptables command :
This command is working like a charm. The only problem is, for some unknown reasons, this rule will be dropped at some point. I did not manage to identify what is causing this to happen. It occurs during night, but I have nothing about that in my log files. messages / firewall / ...) The only way I managed to reproduce this 'dropping' is this one: I type the command like as root. The command is effective and working fine. I open yast, I go to the firewall module, the I do a simple "save changes and restart firewall" (without changing anything). As soon as this process is finished, the iptables rule is gone.
-How can I make this rule permanent ?
-Is there a place where I can launch a script executing this rule, after the yast firewall module is 'touched' or something ?
I have a clean install of Ubuntu server Lucid Lynx with the virt-host task installed. I need to find the location of the iptables rules that are being loaded when the system boots. These are the rules for the virbr0 interface.
