I understand the difference between Reject vs Drop for incoming traffic, but are there any differences between reject and drop for Outbound Traffic? Are there reasons to pick one over the other or are they functionally identical when talking about Outbound traffic?
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I'm simply trying to make a little restriction on www packets under two rules:
1. Allow inbound/outbound www packets (works!)
2. DROP inbound traffic to port 80 from source ports less than 1024. (DOES NOT WORK!)
Now, technically, when i use hping to test my rules, hping3 192.168.100.100 -S -p80 -s 1023 I should NOT receive any packets. However, i still receive packets, which means my rule that says less than 1024 does not work. (see below)
And this is my iptables rules in shell-script so far:
#!/bin/sh
DEFAULT_NIC=eth0
SERVER_IP="192.168.100.100"
ALLOWED_WWW_PORT=80
IPT="/sbin/iptables"
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When deleting a rule, when is better to use DROP instead of REJECT and vice versa? Also, please provide some basic info. for the use of MASQUERADE??
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I added this to iptables, but nothing is being written to the logs when I ssh from the server to another system.
iptables -A OUTPUT -m state --state NEW -j LOG --log-uid iptables-save
I wish to prevent some programs from "phoning home", and to allow other programs to access only specific web servers.Is there any way to interactively allow or decline outbound communication from individual programs on Ubuntu?
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm having an issue where a server in CA (1000/full) and in VA (100/full) have very lopsided data transfer.
CA -> VA with iperf shows ~20Mbps
VA -> CA with iperf shows ~93Mbps
If we change the CA server to 100/FULL, transfer speed is 93Mbps both ways.
Some tuning was done to TCP window scaling parameters, but it won't correct the issue, just improve the CA -> VA numbers to what is listed above. I will say, turning TCP window scaling OFF will lower the transfer speed both ways to < 20Mbps.
The only clue I have when looking at wireshark dumps is that the window scale going OUT would never go past 10240 (scale is 8, so 2^8 x 40bytes). In the opposite direction, the window size will go above 3MB (scaled).
It is not a bandwidth problem as iperf with UDP shows 93Mbps both ways. Local transfers (CA 1000/full to CA 100/full) show full speed both ways, so I feel it is strictly related to TCP window scaling.
RedHat 5 64-bit on both sides. Any ideas why it won't scale above 10240?
I need to set OUTPUT to DROP, and add the outgoing traffic one by one, but I couldn't do it. My current config is as follows:
Code:
*filter
:INPUT DROP [0:0]
:FORWARD DROP [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:RH-Firewall-1-INPUT - [0:0]
-A INPUT -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
-A FORWARD -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
:RH-Firewall-1-OUTPUT - [0:0]
-A INPUT -j RH-Firewall-1-OUTPUT
#previously ESTABLISHED,RELATED comm is ok
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
#80 is ok from all
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
If I change OUTPUT to DROP in :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0], I don't get any response from a server running in that box. I am using RHEL 5.5. Now, asking Red Hat is not an option: I have the license but I don't have support license.
What should I do to keep important files on my computer from being uploaded to the internet? Don't I need an outbound firewall to prevent this?
What causes my computer to send an outbound request to the internet that would result in files being uploaded from my computer onto the internet? I'm afraid to put anything of importance (like reports that I've written for work) onto a computer with internet access because I don't want them to be uploaded to the internet. I wouldn't upload them on purpose obviously, but I'm afraid it would happen without my knowledge because I don't know what I'm doing.
Using Windows, I always set a Restrictive firewall policy with a third party firewall. But I also had all ports set to Stealth, something that appears to not offer any security benefits (as I've learned from reading Ubuntu forums). I'd like to learn about best security practices (under Ubuntu) for outgoing firewall protection. I will be using the built-in Ubuntu firewall that is configured via Firestarter. Outgoing filtering offers privacy as well as security benefits. But I thought I needed my ports stealthed to be safe too, so I'm open to learning new things.
I wanted to start a poll to find out how many folks use permissive/restrictive, but no polls allowed here apparently.Could Ubuntu users knowledgeable about firewalls enlighten me on whether I should go Outbound-Restrictive and what applications I will need to allow so Ubuntu "housekeeping" is not affected negatively? I basically just use the internet for software updates, web-surfing and e-mail. One question I have is whether there is something comparable in Ubuntu to Window's "DNS Client" service? I always disabled Window's "DNS Client" and forced each application to request port 53 DNS lookups itself.I only had to allow four programs to accomplish all internet traffic that I engage in. I set all other programs/applications to be either Blocked or to have to Ask for an outgoing connection as needed.Here is my former Windows XP setup:
svchost.exe: allow UDP for ports 53, 67, 68, 123 (time) and TCP for ports 80, 443
Avast: allow UDP for port 53 and TCP for port 80
firefox: allow UDP for port 53 and TCP for ports 80, 443
IE: allow UDP for port 53 and TCP for ports 80, 443
Tried google and searching this forum to no avail. Under Fedora 14, there is an selinux policy which blocks sshd from making outbound connections on port 80 or 443. This can occur when a client box tries to tunnel through the ssh connection for encrypted access to the web.
While I did manage to allow this happen by creating a permissive domain for sshd with this command:
Code:
The preferred way would be to allow sshd to make connection on other ports with a similar command that does not seem to work:
Code:
Is this the correct way of allowing an outbound port connection for the sshd daemon?
As Linux gains in popularity, (as I believe it will), do you think that Linux will ever become the target of as many virus and worm threats as Windows has faced? If so, do you think that the threats will have much success?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am using ubuntu 10.04 on an iMac 7.1. What do the following log entries mean? I recently had a "sbin/init infected" alarm with chkrootkit (or rkhunter, I forget which) and reinstalled, and I thought I was rid of the problem, whatever it was (could have been a kernel panic), but now the checksecurity setuid stuff reappeared (the checksecurity.log only appears in the log file viewer after resetting it with gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/gnome-system-log, which seems suspicious; why is the log hidden by default?); also there are "outbound" messages that I don't understand. I have another ubuntu install on another Mac which seems to be unaffected (and also has checksecurity installed; I just ran it manually and also got setuid stuff, but there is no "outbound" and ufw.log is empty). I can't really think I have a rootkit (I don't notice any effects except these anomalous logfiles, and my browsing habits don't include sleazy websites). And what exactly are bound sockets? There is a lot of information about sockets on the net but it's all rather technical. I continue to look of course. I ran chkrootkit and rkhunter again, and they read clean (if I can trust them).
Is it possible that the trouble is related to the Mac's BIOS emulation? (Apple does not seem to take security very seriously; Snow Leopard does not even ask for a password for Software Update - I asked my premium reseller and he confirmed it. I should not be surprised to find out that the iMac's BIOS emulation is unsafe. I'll need to get a real computer). The MacBook Pro 5.1 has a newer firmware (for instance, it will boot ubuntu from external disks which the iMac will not), and as I said that install seems to be unaffected (The setuid stuff is probably normal, but I'm not sure the "outbound" messages are). I use grub legacy, which seems to install to the Mac's EFI partition as /dev/sda (GParted shows 18.1 MB of 200MB used on both computers with ubuntu on them, whereas an HFS+ disk without ubuntu, or with GRUB in a partition, will show 3.09 MB used).
Does it make sense to reconfigure checksecurity to check for setuid changes daily (change CHECK_WEEKLY="SETUID" in /etc/checksecurity.conf to CHECK_DAILY="SETUID")?
checksecurity.log:
messages (part):
There also was a lot of terminal output similar to the iMac's which I forgot to save, and when I ran checksecurity again it was blank. (Incidentally, the list of setuid programs on Mac OS is a lot longer)
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View 1 Replies View RelatedRecently I notice that when I'm connected to an vpn server (pptpd) and I'm using it as a default gateway my download and upload speed decreases almost to the half of the usual speed. I made a test using iptables in order to count how much GRE packets are generated (except the real traffic itself) in that way:
Code:
iptables -I INPUT -p gre -j ACCEPT
iptables -I OUTPUT -p gre -j ACCEPT
iptables -I FORWARD -s 172.16.10.101 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I FORWARD -d 172.16.10.101 -j ACCEPT
The first 2 rules match all GRE packets between the pptpd server and client, and the next rules - the traffic between the server and the client.
When I turn the counters to zero and begin to generate traffic (to browse, to download etc.) I see that the GRE packets are even more than these in the FORWARD chain.
So, my question is first of all is my test correct and is it true that so much gre traffic is being generated during the browsing (it becames clear that the traffic is double than if the pptpd wasn't used as a gateway) and if yes - can that traffic be reduced?
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI'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?
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