I'm not an iptables expert, but I am in network security. Seems odd to me
that inbound rules 1 and 2 have the same source and destination in each
rule. The destination should always be your file server, since it sounds
like this is not acting as a router.

Jeremiah E. Bess
Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four


On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 21:47, linuxuser <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a Fedora fileserver that I use on my home network only, so I
> want it to have no outside access and no inbound access except for my
> home subnets (a router and an access point).  Here's what I have built
> so far, but it is not blocking pings to the outside world:
>
> [root@fedora ~]# iptables -L -v
> Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
>  pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source
> destination
>    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  any    any     192.168.2.0
> 192.168.2.0
>    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  any    any     192.168.1.0
> 192.168.1.0
>   43  3049 ACCEPT     all  --  eth0   any     anywhere
> anywhere
>    0     0 REJECT     all  --  any    any     anywhere
> anywhere            reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
>
> Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
>  pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source
> destination
>
> Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 24 packets, 3312 bytes)
>  pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source
> destination
>    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  any    any     192.168.1.0
> 192.168.1.0
>    0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  any    any     192.168.2.0
> 192.168.2.0
>
> My problem occurs when I delete INPUT 3 (the one with all the traffic)
> or add OUTPUT 3 like this:
> iptables -I OUTPUT 3 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j DROP
>
> Lucky for me, I figured out that I could set up a crontab to stop
> iptables every 10 minutes so that I could get back in.  Any
> suggestions?
>
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