Tom Eastep wrote:
> On 5/11/13 3:08 PM, "Dash Four" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   
>> I have a zone (lets call it "net"), which has more than one network
>> device attached to it (all interfaces within that zone are optional) and
>> also have a catch-all statement in my "policy" file "all all DROP",
>> which, I assumed, will produce a DROP rule at the end of each zone2zone
>> chain not explicitly defined in that file.
>>
>> That is indeed the case for 99% of the zones, but for the net2net chain
>> I have ACCEPT rule at the end, not DROP. I am certain I do not have any
>> such rule either in my "rules" or "policy" files, so I am wondering what
>> is the cause for this?
>>     
>
> The default intra-zone policy is ACCEPT and that policy is not overridden
> by a wildcard policy (one with 'all' in the SOURCE and/or DEST). If you
> want a DROP net->net policy then you must specify it explicitly.
>   
Is this documented anywhere, because this is quite a hole I was unaware 
of? It seems inconsistent for 'all' to apply to everything else, except 
intra-zone policies (I do have 2 such zones and in both cases I have 
ACCEPT at the end).


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