On 5/11/13 4:10 PM, "Dash Four" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>Dash Four wrote:
>> 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).
>Should I assume that this is also the case not only with "policy", but
>for everything else as well (rules, blrules etc)? Do I have to specify
>the default rules explicitly for intra-zone traffic in all those files?

Sort of -- look for 'intra-' in shorewall-rules(5).

-Tom
You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to
skydive twice.





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