Re: [users@httpd] RemoteIPProxyProtocolExceptions with negated IP list

2020-05-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 03:15:23PM +0200, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Friday 08 May 2020 at 15:00:07, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 02:01:03PM +0200, Antony Stone wrote:
> > > On Friday 08 May 2020 at 13:16:28, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > > I have a vhost in a https-only IPv6-only setup and would like to make
> > > > the web site hosted there reachable from the IPv4 Internet.
> > > 
> > > Is the vhost capable of dealing with IPv4 queries if you can only manage
> > > to get them to the machine?
> > 
> > Yes, but I'd prefer having the setup IPv6 only. I only build IPv4 if
> > absolutely necessary.
> 
> To be honest I would have thought that "talking to a very large part of the 
> current Internet" is reasonably necessary :)

I would do it differently in an infrastructure project, but this is my
personal blog, somewhere between "engineering study" and "production".
And I know of at least one ISP who has built the datacenter in a quite
similiar way.

Being reachable from the IPv4 internet is very well done with sniproxy,
it's just apache making this unnecessarily complicated by offering two
methods from the same module with the exception list backwards in one of
those two. I was hoping that somebody would explain _why_ the haproxy
protocol is implemented so differently from the http header method in
the very same module, and maybe I have missed something in the docs.

> Dual-stack I can quite understand, but attempting IPv6-only seems a bit too 
> far ahead of the game for my liking.
> 
> > I'd rather take the approach of having a dedicated apache listener for
> > the proxied requests than building more IPv4.
> 
> Okay, I just thought I'd offer an alternative possible solution.

The least evil solutions seems to look different for different people,
although a solution inside apache would actually help the most.

Greetings
Marc

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Re: [users@httpd] RemoteIPProxyProtocolExceptions with negated IP list

2020-05-08 Thread Antony Stone
On Friday 08 May 2020 at 15:00:07, Marc Haber wrote:

> On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 02:01:03PM +0200, Antony Stone wrote:
> > On Friday 08 May 2020 at 13:16:28, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > I have a vhost in a https-only IPv6-only setup and would like to make
> > > the web site hosted there reachable from the IPv4 Internet.
> > 
> > Is the vhost capable of dealing with IPv4 queries if you can only manage
> > to get them to the machine?
> 
> Yes, but I'd prefer having the setup IPv6 only. I only build IPv4 if
> absolutely necessary.

To be honest I would have thought that "talking to a very large part of the 
current Internet" is reasonably necessary :)

Dual-stack I can quite understand, but attempting IPv6-only seems a bit too 
far ahead of the game for my liking.

> I'd rather take the approach of having a dedicated apache listener for
> the proxied requests than building more IPv4.

Okay, I just thought I'd offer an alternative possible solution.


Regards,


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Re: [users@httpd] RemoteIPProxyProtocolExceptions with negated IP list

2020-05-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 02:01:03PM +0200, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Friday 08 May 2020 at 13:16:28, Marc Haber wrote:
> > I have a vhost in a https-only IPv6-only setup and would like to make
> > the web site hosted there reachable from the IPv4 Internet.
> 
> Is the vhost capable of dealing with IPv4 queries if you can only manage to 
> get them to the machine?

Yes, but I'd prefer having the setup IPv6 only. I only build IPv4 if
absolutely necessary.

I'd rather take the approach of having a dedicated apache listener for
the proxied requests than building more IPv4.

Greetings
Marc

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Re: [users@httpd] RemoteIPProxyProtocolExceptions with negated IP list

2020-05-08 Thread Antony Stone
On Friday 08 May 2020 at 13:16:28, Marc Haber wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a vhost in a https-only IPv6-only setup and would like to make
> the web site hosted there reachable from the IPv4 Internet.

Is the vhost capable of dealing with IPv4 queries if you can only manage to 
get them to the machine?

> On a dual-homed host, I have sniproxy that forwards requests coming in via
> IPv4 over IPv6 depending on the SNI header. The web server is directly
> reachable from the IPv6 Internet without proxy.

How about a completely different approach - set up a VPN connection between 
your dual-homed host and the IPv6-only web server, to tunnel IPv4 requests and 
responses over an IPv6 link?

Then you publish the real IPv6 address of the server as your DNS  address, 
and the IPv4 address of the dual-homed host as the A address.  The dual-homed 
host tunnels all requests (source and destination still both IPv4) to the 
vhost, and it routes all IPv4 traffic back across the VPN.

No need for HTTPS interception etc.; you're just tunneling all requests 
directly to the machine which has the certificate on it.


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[users@httpd] RemoteIPProxyProtocolExceptions with negated IP list

2020-05-08 Thread Marc Haber
Hi,

I have a vhost in a https-only IPv6-only setup and would like to make
the web site hosted there reachable from the IPv4 Internet. On a
dual-homed host, I have sniproxy that forwards requests coming in via
IPv4 over IPv6 depending on the SNI header. The web server is directly
reachable from the IPv6 Internet without proxy.

sniproxy can utilize the haproxy proxy protocol to forward the IPv4
address of the requesting client to the weberver. With the
RemoteIPProxyProtocol directive of mod_remoteip, apache can make sense
from that. So far so good.

With this option set, apache expects the proxy protocol on all
connections for the listener in question, making it unsuitable for
direct client connections. There is RemoteIPProxyProtocolExceptions,
which specifies IP addresse from where the proxy protocol is not
required. In the situation in question, I'd need "require proxy
protocol fom the IP address of the proxy ONLY". If I set like 2000::/3
as Exceptions, the entire Internet could send me a wrong IP address.

This logic completely backwards than the other mechanism for
X-Forwarded-For headers using RemoteIPInternalProxy, where I need to put
in a list of IP addresses that are allowed to send a clien IP address.
Confusing.

Is it possible to have a negated IP address list in
RemoteIPProxyProtocolExceptions? I think that I cannot use SetEnvIf at
this point because the ProxyProtocol processing happens way before any
http processing begins.

I would like to avoid defining a dedicated listener for the sniproxy
mechanism.

Any ideas?

Greetings
Marc

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