https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-5494
Also need to take care of changes in subnets too. -abhi On 23/06/14 4:01 pm, "Nux!" <n...@li.nux.ro> wrote: >Hi, > >Today I've been bitten again by the $subject and complaints were sent to >my hoster's abuse email address; apparently someone used my VR in a DDOS >attack. >It is my fault as I knew about this issue, but I'd like to throw the >blame on Cloudstack. :) > >So, the VR is accepting DNS requests from everybody on the interwebs and >this should be changed, imho. > >I see there are already iptables rules concerning port 8080 of the VR and >only the public IP ranges are allowed. Why isn't this the case for port >53 as well? > >I have placed this script in my VR's rc.local, but it's not kosher at all. > ># disallows global DNS traffic and only allows it from the cloud public >subnets >for i in `iptables-save |grep 8080|awk '{print $4}'`; do iptables -I >INPUT -s $i -p tcp -m tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT; iptables -I INPUT -s $i >-p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT; done >iptables -D INPUT -i eth0 -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT >iptables -D INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT > >This could be greatly improved and added in the official tree. >Currently I'm getting the subnets by checking which IPs the 8080 rules >apply, how can I retrieve this information in a more elegant way? > >Lucian > >-- >Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > >Nux! >www.nux.ro >