Uncomplicated Firewall (ufw)

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How to open port 5432 for Servoy (Eclipse) PostgreSQL database server

Im trying to install Servoy Developer on Ubuntu 12.10. I get a problem during installation with the bundled PostgreSQL database server, because the port 5432 is closed. I tried the followind ...
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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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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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What do these lines in the UFW logfile mean?

These lines are repeated several times, first one at the time when remote ssh connection with the machine is lost (mac address is the address of eth used for Internet connection) Mar 24 21:20:32 ...
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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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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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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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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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Make sure torrents only transfer over openVPN with iptables or ufw

My set up: Headless Ubuntu server 12.04 in a virtualbox, deluge and openVPN. The problem is that if the VPN goes down deluge will continue over my normal connection, this should not be possible. I ...
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How can I cancel all the current communication from particular IP in Ubuntu 12.04?

I am working on Ubuntu 12.04 firewall. I want to deny any IP on runtime. I am using "ufw deny from IP". It's working for future connections. But it is not cancelling the existing connections like ssh. ...
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Can I uninstall UFW completely?

I need to configure iptables manually and save and restore the rules using iptables-persistent package. so I don't want ufw anymore. I can simply disable it. but many chains are exists in iptables ...
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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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Alter iptables on disabling UFW

I already added a rule on nat table in /etc/ufw/before.rules : *nat # masquerade rule for virtual box guests -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.56.0/24 -j MASQUERADE COMMIT after running: root@parsoon:~# ...
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Why does UFW seem to slow down wordpress?

I have a speedy install of wordpress going on ubuntu 12.04. Everytime i enable the UFW firewall, things can get really slow. Sometimes fast, sometimes slow, intermittently. Logging on through ssh ...
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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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issue now fixed…ufw wont at boot up or at all even after sudo enable command

very new to ubuntu, very impressed so far apart from problem with ufw. ive installed and uninstalled ufw a variety of times. ive tried the sudo enable command and it still wont run on bootup or at ...
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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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UFW blocked laptop keygen?

I had a puttygen key set up and working on my laptop for a linux server, i got the laptop set up a lot better and the key still worked, i then updated linux server and did a scan on the laptop where ...
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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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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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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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Set UFW before.rules without restart of server

I use UFW on my Ubuntu server. Unfortunately there are no rules in UFW to port forward to another machine. What you need to do is edit /etc/before.rules and put routing commands there, for example # ...
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Can't open a port

I need to run an app on my computer which connects to local port 49100. So everything runs on one computer. I tried adding rules to gufw, firestarter, manually: sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport ...
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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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Regarding ufw firewall

I am using Gproxy software in my computer(Ubuntu 12.10). I want to allow incoming connection from only one IP adress,so that he can use internet. what settings should I configure in ufw firewall.
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Using Ubuntu as a gateway for monitoring and possibly IPS IDS within Active Directory

Ok, I've searched for days, maybe you can point me in the right direction. I have an MPLS scenario with a shared gateway in a multi-domain M$FT AD environment. On the inside of the MPLS all of the ...
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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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UFW not allowing Transmission to transfer

I have set the rules in ufw for Transmission but when I try to use it it will not transfer and it also says the port is closed when checked under preferences. If I turn the UFW firewall off it still ...
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IP forwarding not working in Ubuntu 12.04 Server

I'm having trouble getting IP forwarding going in Ubuntu 12.04 server with UFW. I'm trying to get OpenVPN working. I have two interfaces, eth0 and tun0, and they can't ping each other. I've made the ...
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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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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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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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Why I'm getting this [UFW BLOCK] in my syslogs?

I wonder why I get this error on my syslogs: [7732763.396193] [UFW BLOCK] IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=02:8b:1a:75:d5:7b:02:8b:1a:40:00:03:08:00 SRC=x.x.x.x DST=x.x.x.x LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=53703 ...
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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 do I configure ufw to allow ssh on another port? [closed]

I'm having some difficulties at the moment with my Ubuntu SSH server. The only title I could come up with summarizing my situation was too long so here is my problem: I recently discovered the ...
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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 to set an NFS network between my two Ubuntu PCs?

I want to merge information found here and there in order to record in one answer all steps to set my NFS network between my too Ubuntu PCs. This is useful time to time, for example after Ubuntu ...
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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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Block Ping from a specific IP

I am on a private LAN 192.168.1.0/24. My ip is 192.168.1.3, I want to block only ping requests from 192.168.1.2. I am running ubuntu 11.10. I found two links First tells how to block an IP but not ...
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If I enable ufw, and disable ssh. Is my base install Ubuntu 12.04 safe from the outside world?

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 I then installed Gufw, enabled it and Set every known application setting to "Deny". I never installed sshdaemon so I think its off. My machine still responds to pings... ...
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Is there a way to keep UFW logging out of dmesg?

There are comments in the /etc/rsyslog.d/20-ufw.conf file that give you the option to keep UFW-events from being logged to the kernel and message logs, which i have done. I would really like to get ...
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Open port in gufw is closed, no incoming connection on deluge

I have a problem configuring gufw. I open ports on it, but when i test in deluge it shows as closed. Any help on setting up the firewall would be greatly appreciated. This is the output I get on the ...

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