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FirewallD is a firewall service daemon with D-BUS interface managing a dynamic firewall. First used in Fedora 18, it is expected to be the default firewall tool for future versions of Enterprise Linux.

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firewall-cmd to drop existing connections

I want to use firewall-cmd to temporarily block mysql port 3306, including existing connections. However after I remove MySQL service, only new connections are blocked. The existing connections are ...
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IPsets in FirewallD with Nftables backend

I upgraded my server to Fedora 32. Firewalld has switched the backend to Nftables. My setup is pretty simple. Just HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, SMTP ports open and multiple IPsets (IPv4, IPv6) to block a preset ...
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Reject all except for whitelist policy with firewalld

I've been reading on firewalld for about the whole morning, and I came up with the following public zone: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <zone> <short>Public</short> ...
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Can't firewalld replace iptables?

I used Iptables on Centos 6.5 and tried to translate iptables rules into firewalld rules on centos 7. However, with firewalld, i have discovered i am unable to drop packets in invalid states create ...
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how to allow outgoing traffic with firewalld / libvirt on CentOS 8?

I installed a CentOS 8 guest on a CentOS 8 host using libvirt. However firewalld is blocking all outgoing traffic from the guest to the internet unless I use target=ACCEPT for the libvirt zone. The ...
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firewalld: two NICs, two zones. Zone is ignored

I have a server running CentOS/RHEL 7.7 with two network interfaces. These interfaces are configured and work properly. The first interface, ens33, is part of the firewalld "public" zone. All the ...
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Blocking ALL outgoing traffic Using firewalld to dedicated network subnets?

I have several RHEL7/CentOS7 servers on which I need to block all OUTGOING traffic to dedicated machines or dedicated network subnets e.g. CIDR 168.192.10.0/24. For the moment I tried with firewall-...
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Fail2ban on centos 7 does not add rule to firewall. Firewall-cmd used on system

I installed the latest fail2ban from centos/epel I have added the ssh enabled option in jail.local. I have tried with action and banaction = firewallcmd-ipset neither made any difference. iptables-...
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Webmin support for Firewalld

I have configured routers/firewalls several times in the past with nftables. I'm now setting up a Linux router that will be managed by other people with less experience, so I figured Webmin would be ...
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Issues between docker and firewalld/iptables

OpenSUSE 15.3 user here. I broke the default rules created by docker on iptables and can't figure out how to repair this. I tried reinstalling docker already. Here is what happens: vm-dev:~ # ...
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ufw rule not reflected in firewalld

I have allowed connection from anywhere to anyport using ufw: sudo ufw allow from any When I try to reach a service I still get blocked, I receive No route to host but if i disable firewalld then I ...
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using Firewalld , trying to allow all ports that come in on an internal ip

I am building a new server and i am using Firewalld for the first time. I have a loadbalancer that takes public ip requests and routes them to one of my servers with internal IPs These servers have ...
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firewalld, `--add-rich-rule` and missing blacklist set

My server uses Centos8 quite recently installed (~1 year). After trying to ban an IP: firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=extz --add-rich-rule='rule family="ipv4" source address="49.88.112....
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Firewalld - add IP to ipset dynamically from rich rule

Is there any option to add the source IP to an ipset dynamically from a rich-rule? Basically, when there's a port hit, i need to add the source IP to an ipset. Also, is there any option to add a ...
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How to block outgoing OpenVPN connections on CentOS 7 with firewalld?

There are: 192.168.1.0/24 network (gateway 192.168.1.1) with access to the Internet (IP: 345.45.67.89) OpenVPN server (CentOS 7) connected via eth0 (192.168.1.2) (OpenVPN port: 1194 | tun0 10.8.0.0/...
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fail2ban on centos 8 using iptables instead of firewalld

I have a question about fail2ban behavior and hope you could help to clarify. thanks in advance. So I had fail2ban running on a CentOS 8 server successfully but it just occurred to me recently ...
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Firewalld port forward by hostname

Is it possible to forward a port to an address specified by a hostname rather than an ip address using firewalld. For example something like: sudo firewall-cmd --add-forward-port=port=2222:proto=tcp:...
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Forwarding Fragments with IPTables / FirewallD

I have a linux (openSuse Leap 15.0) computer that's connected to a cable modem using PPoE (hopefully not relevant to this. EDIT the ppp0 interface has an mtu of 1492 but the eth0 interface it is "...
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CentOS (with firewalld) - Forward udp (netbios) broadcast

I'm trying to implement a small lab infrastructure with VSphere with multiple LAN, 2 of the LANs are : Work : with employee laptops Trusted : With all my server (except web that is in a separate DMZ)...
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in firewalld port 80 is closed but nmap shows the port is open, and I can connect to it

my linux environment is fedora 27, httpd is running, and firewall-cmd --list-all shows FedoraWorkstation (active) target: default icmp-block-inversion: no interfaces: wlp3s0 sources: ...
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How to write firewalld rule with rich language

How can I write a rule for firewalld using rich language which restricts packets from a particular port and particular protocol. For IP tables I wrote a rule like: firewall-cmd --permanent --...
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Does firewalld handle the common attack rules of iptables by default?

I'm in the process of migrating servers to CentOS 7 from 6.5 and the most major change appears to be the shift from iptables to firewalld. My prior experience with iptables tells me that there are a ...
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Add specific ports to Centos firewall

I am fairly new to Centos/Linux and have been trying to configure my firewall to restrict access to mysql and ssh for only a few IP addresses. When I run the following and do a port scan I do see that ...
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firewalld and iptables | fail2ban

I have fail2ban 1.0.2 running on an Almalinux server. Seems to be working as hoped, but I'm puzzled by something. have sshd.local and 00-firewalld.local in jail.d (installed fail2ban and fail2ban-...
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Looping forwarded and locally originating connections through port forwarding rules in firewalld

I have a Debian box running firewalld set up a as gateway NAT/router. This device has two NICS; wan --- public interface, assigned to the external firewalld zone, dynamically assigned IP address using ...
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Assign outlet IP for a libvirt VM using routed network

My host network interface has got two IPs. Currently, I'm running my VMs in a routed network. Host's network interface is a member of public zone in firewalld, with both forward and masquerade enabled....
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How do debug nft_table allow rule thats contradictory

I have some nftable rules in the inet firewalld table chain filter_FWD_policy_externalTolxc { jump filter_FWD_policy_externalTolxc_pre jump ...
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NAT'ing a specific port not working on Ubuntu, works correctly on Fedora

We have previously been running Fedora instances but for a few reasons we have needed to move over to Ubuntu based distros. Previously, we have used the following firewalld rules in order to NAT ...
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Centos7: Firewalld port 80 not being blocked

Why am I able to telnet to my machine on port 80 when I do not have http or port 80 opened and there are no services listening on port 80? sudo firewall-cmd --list-all --zone=public public (active) ...
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How can I convert this iptables mark-user rule to firewald rich language?

I'm trying to convert the scripts here from raw iptables to firewalld rich rules. For example, these rules: # Mark packets from $VPNUSER iptables -t mangle -A OUTPUT ! --dest $LAN_NETWORK -m owner --...
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How to reload firewalld without loosing Libvirt iptables forwarding rules

It's been well know that firewalld will flush Libvirt rules upon reload and thus making port forwarding to VMs broken until you restart libvirtd. Here is what I did: Create /etc/systemd/system/...
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nginx local reverse proxy with firewalld

I am running a service on a docker container. The service is exposed on a given port (eg. 12345). On top of it I added a nginx reverse proxy to get extra functionality like HTTPS and HTTP/2. nginx ...
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Linux Kernel IP Forward activated, firewalld is bypassed?

On a Linux Centos7, I have some traffic that is routed with static routes from one interface to another. I did notice that with firewalld activated, both interfaces added in a zone, and nothing ...
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Removing firewalld passthrough rules

This one is causing me confusion. Add a permanent passthrough rule: - # firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --add-passthrough ipv4 -I INPUT -p TCP --dport 65533 -j DROP success Issue a reload so the ...
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Cannot access to website after installing cockpit

I have no idea what happened in my system. I have installed cockpit then I realize I cannot access to my website, which is hosted in my server, anymore. Even when I remove cockpit, which contains ...
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Linux Networking and Port-Forwarding with Virtual Machine

I have an application running on my RaspberryPi4 that sends sensor data through my Fedora32 laptop, to Ubuntu 18.04 on my VM at Gnome-Boxes. The main host is Fedora 32 laptop. The Raspberry Pi board ...
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Seems like firewalld is not honouring rich rules, to give docker container outside connection aside from ping

I'm on Fedora 32 5.7.16-200.fc32.x86_64, with the package firewalld: firewalld-0.8.3-1.fc32.noarch, and my Docker containers (all of them, with every image) don't have internet access by default, or ...
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Firewalld: how are rules of the same priority ordered?

I've been playing with Firewalld and I was wondering about how it does to order rules with the same priority. According to the documentation, it says that there is no guarantee that rules with the ...
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Is iptables-save and iptables-restore works if I am using firewalld?

We are using docker-compose to run our services and firewalld as our firewall. Now we need to modify some firewall rules, but since firewalld has possible risk that remove DOCKER-USER iptables chain ...
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OVH VPS - firewalld not working in Centos 7

I installed a new server on OVH with CentOS 7: yum install firewalld then enabled and rebooted systemctl enable firewalld reboot I am now be able to login using ssh but firewalld does not ...
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Configure Firewalld for SSL on Fedora 29 Workstation

I'm battling with firewalld and SSL on Fedora 29 workstation. I get a connection refused / can't Connect to server when I try and open an SSL connection to nginx. If I stop firewalld with: sudo ...
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generate an audit log when a non-whitelist IP is trying to access

I have removed the SSH service from firewalld firewall-cmd --zone=public --remove-service=ssh Using rich rule I'm allowing particular IP to access SSH service firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-rich-...
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Why does nmap show port 25 as open? Server's firewall should block port 25

nmap 7.70 executed remotely shows the server's port 25 as open. However, the firewall on my VPS server only opens ssh, http and https services. On the laptop: nmap x.x.x.x Not shown: 996 filtered ...
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Firewalld drop by default and allow the existing rules that are in place

My question is how can i retain the existing configuration i have with firewalld and also drop all other connections if there is no specific rule for it. I have the following firewall configuration: ...
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allowing/rejecting imap and imaps with firewalld for certain ips

I have following requirement; all imap requests from 192.168.4.0/24 shoud be rejected with firewall AND all imaps request rom 192.168.4.0/24 should be allowed with firewall (along with the default ...
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firewalld - open all ports except one

Here is my firewalld configuration: firewall-cmd --zone=abc --list-all abc (active) target: ACCEPT icmp-block-inversion: no interfaces: eth0 sources: services: ports: protocols: ...
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JDBC Oracle 12 allow jdbc outgoing traffic in firewalld

I'm installing an application which needs an Oracle DB on my server. The DB is hosted on another dedicated server. The application is using JDBC to connect to the DB. I have tested the connection ...
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Accept and forward incoming IPv6 range to another interface

I have an OpenVPN setup working with IPv4. In preparation for IPv6 support, I did the following: ens3 interface (can reach Internet) got a /64 address from ISP I split the /64 into two /65 ens3 now ...
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firewalld - how to block ping ICMP packets?

I can't seem to block ping requests to my server. I also followed the following post: Block ICMP timestamp & timestamp reply with firewalld # firewall-cmd --zone=public --list-all public target:...
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firewalld puppet module unable to add multiple sources error: INVALID ZONE on second source

We have a puppet module (v3.6.2 as we're using it for Satellite 6) The module works as expected, except when adding multiple sources to a zone. It will add the zone and then add one souce, then error ...
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