On 8/6/2013 10:11 AM, Pete Geenhuizen wrote:
> I'm trying to implement shorewall on my Centos 6 firewall.  I'm by no
> means a firewall person and have an extremely limited knowledge of
> iptables and find it to be very confusing, and am hoping that
> Shorewall will help me get around that problem.
>
> With that said, here's what I attempting to figure out.
>
> I have a web and email server running on a local host and when I
> implement shorewall I continue to get email and my web page is
> accessible from the internet.  So far so good.
>
> My problem is with the firewall itself.  I run a weather station
> connected to my firewall, and it sends updates to weather underground,
> and to CWOP, I also run ddclient on the same host.  All 3 of these
> processes fail to connect to their respective hosts.
Why don't you simply have an ACCEPT policy from $FW to net? In
/etc/shorewall/policy:

$FW    net    ACCEPT

>
> As best I can determine ddclient and connections to the weather
> underground hosts both utilize port 80, and
> all cwop servers - - - cwop.aprs.net : port 14580 or port 23 - - -
> this links to all four CWOP servers.
>
> Here are  the rules that I've tried.  I tried specifying both
> protocols and ports as well but neither works.
>
> ACCEPT    net:checkip.dyndns.org    $FW    all    -   
> ACCEPT    net:weatherstation.wunderground.com    $FW    all    -   
> ACCEPT    net:cwop.aprs.net    $FW    all    -   
> DNAT    net    loc:XXX.XXX.XXX.2    tcp    http,https,imap,imaps,smtp

Placing DNS names in your configuration is a really bad idea. See:

http://www.shorewall.net/configuration_file_basics.htm#dnsnames
http://www.shorewall.net/FAQ.htm#idp3857840

-Tom

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