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ufw firewall operation

I have always run the program UFW as my firewall in Ubuntu, and been satisifed with its performance. When I installed Ubuntu 13.04, and enabled ufw, I was not able to access the internet, and all ...
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How do I allow local subnets in ufw?

I recently got IPv6 connectivity at home and now I would like to allow connections to my home server via IPv6 from the LAN only. The trick is that the IPv6 address/prefix assigned to the server is ...
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UFW 'default deny incoming' doesn't work

I have UFW enabled, 'default deny incoming' set and no any additional rules, but I still can access all ports from other PCs. I have to manually block each port. What can be wrong?
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Allow hotspot service to run on Precise without compromising the firewall?

Well, I've been using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS for a while now, and for my own sanity and security, I've configured my ufw firewall to deny all incoming, and for outgoing just allow these ports: TCP 80, 443 ...
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What could be the cause for these strange UFW block entries in my syslog?

I've recently noticed a large number of recurring UFW blocks in my syslog. This surprised me as I have no UFW rules set: $ sudo ufw status verbose Status: active Logging: on (low) Default: deny ...
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How do I configure ufw to only allow outgoing/established connections for a IPv6 network?

How do I configure ufw to only allow outgoing/established connections for a IPv6 network? I am using an old computer with 12.04 installed to create an IPv6 router for my local network. I would like ...
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Setup firewall: ask user to allow new incoming/outgoing traffic?

I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 and as I know there is already a firewall on any ubuntu system. It's ufw and because I like fancy gui stuff I can use gufw, that's very nice. Now I would like to configure this ...
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gufw set to “deny incoming” and “deny outgoing” still allows me to use internet with browser, what gives?

I've been trying to setup gufw. I would have thought that if I denied outgoing and incoming I should not be able to do anything outside of my local computer... but I still can use the internet, etc. ...
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Is it possible to block a webpage using ufw?

basically I have two machines X and Y. I want to block "http:// <IP-of-Y-Here> /AFolder/" from machine X on HTTP port 80 using ufw. Trivially, this can be completed (awfully) using ufw ...
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firewall ufw is “enable and active” but gufw is off

question concerning the ufw firewall : sudo ufw enable returns Firewall is active and enabled on system startup sounds fine, but when i start gufw after reboot, it is still off what does that ...
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How can I turn off ufw blocking nodes

I have set up ufw on a couple of servers and allowed every connection between those servers since the need to communicate with each other without any restriction. Now, ufw sometimes blocks connection ...
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Problems allowing outgoing multicast in ufw

I am having problems configuring the uncomplicated firewall (ufw) to allow outgoing multicast traffic. I am blocking all in and outgoing connections as the default policy. I have supplemented with the ...
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Setup of UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall) on network that contains proxy

Trying to make a proper setup for UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall). I have network that's behind proxy. Setup I need it that some of the network computers have to be able to browse everywhere, and some ...
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User to access only to specific IP addresses

How can I setup Ubuntu box so logged user can access only to several IP addresses, on all protocols? Additional problem is that Ubuntu uses proxy to acceess to internet. Tried with UFW, but did not ...
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UFW port forwarding

I use UFW and here is my setup: eth0 is configured as a bridge interface (br0): inet adr:10.0.4.10 Bcast:10.0.4.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 eth2 is connected to a private network: inet ...
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Firewall stopped and disabled on system startup ERROR: problem running ufw-init

I am trying to set a VPN server on my PC (Ubuntu). I am following a tutorial , http://cviorel.easyblog.ro/2009/02/09/how-to-set-up-a-vpn-server-on-ubuntu/. I made changes in various files including ...
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ufw firewall port deny access

I installed red5(version 0_9_1) on my Ubuntu 12.04 server and I use ufw firewall. I want just an ip address to connect to port 5080 and protocol rtmp to see my flv movie. for test I have allowed IP1 ...
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ufw configuration nat ppp0

please some tips how i can allow this request in ufw: [UFW BLOCK] IN=ppp0 OUT=eth0 MAC= SRC=10.11.22.2 DST=8.8.4.4 LEN=71 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=127 ID=52 PROTO=UDP SPT=59405 DPT=53 LEN=51 i tried ...
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Ubuntu all versions from 10.04 till 12.10 [closed]

Is simply enabling the firewall ufw (sudo ufw enable) sufficient enough for protection of the OS ? I mean should extra rules be added for 'better' protection, or is simply enabling the firewall enough ...
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Port listening on localhost:8000 but not on ip:8000

Hello I'm running a web application on port 8000. When I access it from the host server localhost:8000 it responds ok, 127.0.0.1:8000 also works, but 192.168.1.7:8000 does not work. 192.168.1.7 is the ...
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Best & The Most Secure UFW Configurations? [closed]

I've looked in these two (1 & 2) Qs&As but didn't find an accurate and simple answer... I'm on a variant of Ubuntu 10.04 and I want to configure my firewall in a way that it couldn't be ...
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How to configure UFW to allow IP Forwarding?

I have UFW, OpenVPN and Virtualbox installed on my home server. I have a host-only network for my virtual machine guests (vboxnet0) set up with the IP range 10.0.1.0, and another IP range of 10.0.0.0 ...
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How do I allow all possible IPs for Gmail servers through my ufw firewall?

I am currently using the following rule: ufw allow out from my_local_ip to any port 587 This is a little too lax for my liking. I would like to tighten it up and restrict it to only gmail's smtp ...
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What do UFW's audit log entries mean?

I'm sometimes getting a lot of these AUDIT log entries in ... [UFW AUDIT] IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=176.58.105.134 DST=194.238.48.2 LEN=76 TOS=0x10 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=32137 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=36231 DPT=123 ...
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How to add a rule for loggin packets in ufw

I'm seeing a lot of connections with source 0.0.0.0 and destination 0.0.0.0 in conntrack. I want to log these packets which have source 0.0.0.0 and destination 0.0.0.0 so that I can digg this issue ...
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UFW Settings - Application Integration [closed]

I have installed the Ubuntu system, and deny both incoming and outgoing ports loosing internet access. Now I want access only for my Firefox that I have installed separately from the Firefox website ...
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What are ICMP redirects and should they be blocked?

After enabling ufw and the Tiger security auditor, I see warnings saying: The system accepts ICMP redirection messages What are ICMP redirection messages? Should they be disabled for security ...
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UFW give errors and won't auto start at boot [closed]

I just tried to enable ufw on my server, it gave me this error : ERROR: problem running ufw-init When I tried the second time, it worked. When I tried to set the default rule "sudo ufw default ...
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What rules to use for UFW?

I've decided to enable the UFW that comes with Ubuntu just to make my system even more secure (especially after watching a video of a person whose computer actually got infected!), and I've enabled ...
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Enforce outgoing port for a machine inside LAN

I'm running Ubuntu Server (natty) in as a gateway/firewall in front of a private network. I have successfully enabled IP forwarding and NAT so the machines behind the firewall can connect to Internet ...
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Precautionary security measures for a home user? (firewall, antivirus, etc)

I just recently made the switch from Windows to Ubuntu, and I'm just a little paranoid when it comes to security measures. I've looked around and from what I've read, security is not as big a concern ...
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How do I accept inbound connections for a specific program?

Windows firewall allows to specify a program that will accept inbound connections no matter on which port(s) is listening (instead of specifying the port(s) to allow for that program). Is this ...
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UFW firewall still blocking SMB despite adding rules

I have an Ubuntu PC with ufw firewall (GUI version). I have added the preset Samba service, in and out, and even tried adding the ports manually (135-139, 445, UDP and TCP, in and out), but it still ...
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See configured rules even when inactive

I'm wondering if it's possible to get UFW to list the configured firewall rules even when it's not enabled. I only have ssh access to the server at this time, and I don't want to enable UFW if there's ...
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Why UFW has to be (re)started at boot time if it's only iptables rule manager?

README from source package says: When installing ufw from source, you will also need to integrate it into your boot process for the firewall to start when you restart your system. Depending on your ...
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Why is the firewall disabled by default?

Why is ufw firewall included in Ubuntu, when it is not enabled and pre-configured by default? Most users don't even know it is there, because no GUI frontend is provided.
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Ubuntu comes with firewall by default?

I understand the Ubuntu comes with firwallul UFW is true? There is a GUI for it? if so, what is his name and where do I download? It is possible that UFW notify us (like in windows with a pop-up ...
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Firewall Settings for Personal File Sharing

I have ufw set up to allow samba connections, but this does not seem to allow files to be transferred through Ubuntu's "Personal File Sharing" using the Public folder. The share can be seen, but not ...
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What does this UFW log mean?

CC-02 kernel [ 399.656733] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.2.11 DST=192.168.2.22 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=14158 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=47368 DPT=22 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 ...