I'm trying to block a certain IP address or range to reach my WordPress server that's configured on my Google Compute Engine server.
I know I can block it via Apache, but even if I do my access_logs will still be filled with 403 error from requests from this IP.
Is there any way to block the IP entirely and don't even let it reach Apache?
Thanks in advance for any help.
If you want to block a single IP address, but allow all other traffic, the simplest option is probably to use iptables on the host. The GCE firewall rules are designed to control which IP addresses can reach your instance, but allowing everything on the internet except one address would probably be annoying to write.
To block a single IP address with iptables:
iptables -A INPUT -s $IP_ADDRESS -j DROP
or to just drop HTTP (but not HTTPS or other protocols):
iptables -A INPUT -s $IP_ADDRESS -p tcp --destination-port 80 -j DROP
Note that you'll need to run the above command as root in either case.
By default all incoming traffic to GCE is blocked except for the ports and range of IPs that are allowed to have access. Allowing everything to connect except a specific IP or a range of IP addresses is not supported on GCE firewall. As a workaround, you can setup a Load Balancer and allow incoming traffic from the LB IP address only to the instance. You can have more information in this Help Center article.
Yes you can block it using Gcloud Firewall.
Try creating the firewall rule from the command line or by logging into Google Cloud.
Example:
gcloud compute firewall-rules create tcp-deny --network example-network --source-ranges 10.0.0.0/8 --deny tcp:80
Above Rule will block the range 10.0.0.0/8 to port 80 (tcp).
Same can be done to block other IP Ranges over tcp and udp.
For more info check this: glcoud network config
Bitnami developer here
If you want to block a certain IP, you can use iptables as it's pointed in this post.
Also, if you want to have your iptables rules active when you reboot your machine you have to do the following:
sudo su
iptables-save > /opt/bitnami/iptables-rules
crontab -e
Now edit the file and include this line at the end:
#reboot /sbin/iptables-restore < /opt/bitnami/iptables-rules
This way, in every boot, the system will load the iptables rules and apply them.
To block offending IP, there are some methods on different levels to do it. From performance perspective, generally :
Network firewall > VM iptables > VM web server > VM application.
Google cloud has build-in firewall that no cost.
For example, this gcloud command create one firewall rule that can block 1 or more ips.
gcloud compute --project=your-project-id firewall-rules create your-firewall-rule-name --direction=INGRESS --priority=900 --network=default --action=DENY --rules=all --source-ranges=ip1,ip2,ip3…
Command parameters' reference see here https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/compute/firewall-rules/create
You can also use Google cloud console or rest api to create it, but on console it's not easy to input lots of ips.
Build-in firewall's current limit:
One project can create 100 firewall rules.
One firewall rule can block 256 ip sources.
If there are 10 other firewall rules, you can block 90x256=23040 standalone ips, that is enough for general case.
Note: Google cloud app engine firewall is separated from build-in firewall.
Linux iptables
See other answers.
Web server
Apache, Nginx can also block ip.
Application
Not recommended block ip here. But application can help analysis which ip need to block, for example login failed many times.
If you want your system to automatically block all bad ip addresses in the GCP Firewall you can check out the Gatekeeper for Google Cloud Firewall.
It analyses your network connections and WordPress/Apache logs dynamically and creates approprate rules to ward off DoS and DDoS attacks as well as spying bots.
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In http the client supplies the hostname it used to connect to the service with. Now, for bare TCP connections, is there something similar one can do? My scenario is I have a service that has multiple open TCP ports and that works fine, but for convenience I would like to use the same port and subdomains. Is there any layer I can add on top (like a load balancer), or change the service? I have control over most things, basically anything goes.
Example:
Today I can connect to two TCP services like so: foobar.com:1001 and foobar.com:1002. Is it possible to have e.g. service-1.foobar.com:1000 go to foobar.com:1001 and service-2.foobar.com:1000 go to foobar.com:1002.
Different services can bind to same port but on different IP. Hence different domains shall resolve to different IPs : Port combination [where Port is same for all services]. And you can use Proxy service as from HA Proxy to route connections to final destination.
If I understand your question correctly based on your example then no it is not possible. In this case, there is no difference between an HTTP and TCP connection.
In both cases, the hostname is simply resolved to an ip address. If you setup DNS resolution for foobar.com, service-1.foobar.com, service-2.foobar.com to point to the same ip address then they will all go to the same machine.
I have at times needed to have a service running on a different port internally than it is accessible externally. For that, if you are running on Linux, you can simply use iptables to do the port forwarding.
You can find other stack overflow questions/answers for setting up the port forwarding.
https://serverfault.com/questions/140622/how-can-i-port-forward-with-iptables
On a VPS with a static, publicly routable IP, I have a simple web server running (on port 8080) in a container that exports port 8080 (-p 0.0.0.0:8080:8080).
If I spin up another container on the same box and try to curl <public ip of host>:8080 it resolves the address, tries to connect but fails when making the request (it just hangs).
From the host's shell (outside containers), curl <public ip of host>:8080 succeeds.
Why is this happening? My feeling is that, somehow, the virtual network cards fail to communicate with each other. Is there a workaround (besides using docker links)?
According to Docker's advanced networking docs (http://docs.docker.io/use/networking/): "Docker uses iptables under the hood to either accept or drop communication between containers."
As such, I believe you would need to setup inbound and outbound routing with iptables. This article gives a solid description of how to do so: http://blog.codeaholics.org/2013/giving-dockerlxc-containers-a-routable-ip-address/
I have two Virtual Machines, which due to some historical reasons are under two different subscriptions. I am trying to find a way to connect them through internal IPs.
Normally for public virtual IP, I open the relevant port on Azure portal and than add an iptable rule like
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m tcp -s 198.1.1.1/32 --dport 11211 -j ACCEPT
And then I can connect with the public IP. I do the same by replacing the public ip as above to the internal ip but it didn't work.
After some search it seems the normal way is to create a virtual network and add the two machines in it. But I got two questions:
Is there a way like the iptables rule like can achieve what I want without the need to setup virtual network?
Can one add non-azure machine, like an VPS, in the virtual network?
Q1:
Is there a way like the iptables rule like can achieve what I want
without the need to setup virtual network?
No. Not really. A possible workaround would be to still create an InputEndpoint (Endpoint from the Portal) for both the virtual machines. Then change your iptables rules for both public and private Addresses. But no guarantees it will work. Moreover, when not part of a Virtual Network, the internal IP Address of a VM is very likely to change sooner or later, especially on restart.
Q2:
Can one add non-azure machine, like an VPS, in the virtual network?
Technically yes. You have to use either Site-to-Site VPN (GA) or a Point-to-Site VPN (Preview). You can read more on Site-to-Site VPN here and Point to Site VPN here.
I have a website that I'm running locally at localhost:8000. I'd like to access my site from other devices on my network. I've tried to visit the site via my computer's internal IP address via: 127.0.0.1:8000but this doesn't work. Is this possible?
Three most probable things:
Check if there is a network route between the client and the server machine (commands like PING and TRACERT will help);
Check if the server machine has a firewall. If it does, there must be a rule allowing (opening) connections through that port (8000) in TCP;
Most likely, the problem is one of the two above. If not, there's one last thing:
Make sure the web server (the one that serves localhost:8000) is bound to listen to all IP addresses (not only 127.0.0.1).
To know that, search for servername bind all ip addresses on google. E.g., for apache HTTPD, it'd be apache bind all ip addresses.
here is what I do in similar cases:
search rejetto hfs on google, it is single executable less than 1Mb size and download it into your server machine.
after starting it, follow menu->IP addresses. these are all your possible addresess on the server side.
these are your IP addresses to enter, and your port is 8000 as you mentioned.
most possible IP addresses you will find are in the format of following:
192.168.?.?
10.0.0.?
169.254.?.?
besided you will probably need to add a firewall rule for your server app.
I did a script that launch several amazon instances with the same security group which is the default one, with ICMP and all the TCP/UDP connection allowed... so no firewall problem.
I am running an ubuntu 11.4 64 bits ami working fine.
Usually in the bunch of machine I launch some do not respond to any ping or telnet connection. They can ping other machines but cannot be pinged. The other machines can ping each other in two directions without any problem, but usually one or two just don't respond to any ping. There is no difference in the way I launch them, so I don't understand where this bug comes from...
How to avoid this problem and recover from it without restarting the EC2 instance?
Thanks a lot tender developpers :D.
try this
Log into AWS account.
Click on Security Groups. Choose the required security group.
Click on the Inbound tab.
Create a new rule:
Custom ICMP rule
Type: Echo request
Source: 0.0.0.0/0
0.0.0.0 will allow everyone to ping your server. You can specify your own addresses if you want.
Assuming all the instances you launch have the same security group and same ami, you need to contact amazon about this.
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=22640