Commit Graph

5 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Alex Vandiver
3bf047beb8 iptables: Skip conntrack for DNS queries.
Under heavy request load, it is possible for the conntrack kernel
table to fill up (by default, 256k connections).  This leads to DNS
requests failing because they cannot make a new conntrack entry.

Allow all port-53 UDP traffic in and out without connection tracking.
This means that unbound port-53 traffic is no longer filtered out by
the on-host firewall -- but it is already filtered out at the border
firewall, so this does not change the external network posture.
`systemd-resolve` also only binds to 127.0.0.53 on the loopback
interface, so there is no server to attack on inbound port 53.
2024-01-10 09:07:00 -08:00
Alex Vandiver
f8636e7d2b iptables: Stop logging on dropped packets.
We never examine these logs, and it fills dmesg.  We have flow logging at the AWS stack layer.
2023-08-30 15:29:01 -07:00
Alex Vandiver
5857dcd9b4 puppet: Configure ip6tables in parallel to ipv4.
Previously, IPv6 firewalls were left at the default all-open.

Configure IPv6 equivalently to IPv4.
2021-08-24 16:05:46 -07:00
Alex Vandiver
845509a9ec puppet: Be explicit that existing iptables are only ipv4. 2021-08-24 16:05:46 -07:00
Alex Vandiver
c9141785fd puppet: Use concat fragments to place port allows next to services.
This means that services will only open their ports if they are
actually run, without having to clutter rules.v4 with a log of `if`
statements.

This does not go as far as using `puppetlabs/firewall`[1] because that
would represent an additional DSL to learn; raw IPtables sections can
easily be inserted into the generated iptables file via
`concat::fragment` (either inline, or as a separate file), but config
can be centralized next to the appropriate service.

[1] https://forge.puppet.com/modules/puppetlabs/firewall
2021-05-27 21:14:48 -07:00