Tom Eastep wrote:
> On 5/11/13 4:03 PM, "Dash Four" <[email protected]> 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).
>>     
>
> man shorewall-policy. And look for "Important"
>   
Yeah, got it, thanks. It would have been nice if I could use "all+ all+ 
DROP" in "policy" for example, without reverting to this explicit 
definition malarkey.


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