vzfirewall: an extremely simple tool to configure opened ports and hosts for incoming connections in OpenVZ environment (C) dkLab, http://en.dklab.ru/lib/dklab_vzfirewall/

Vzfirewall tool allows you to open/close ports for incoming connections with no dependencies to foreign IP addresses. E.g. you may allow a hostname release.prod.example.com to connect to port 5432 of VE 1234 and leave all other ports closed by modifying 1234.conf file adding multiline FIREWALL directive into it - see SYNOPSIS below.

You must then run vzfirewall -a on your hardware node to apply changes made in *.conf.

Note that it is recommended to use hostnames instead of IP addresses here, so the configuration is persistent for VE movements to different IP-address: you just need to run vzfirewall -a again after movement. It is also reboot-safe, because applied to /etc/sysconfig/iptables (at RHEL systems).

INSTALLATION

cd /usr/sbin wget http://github.com/DmitryKoterov/vzfirewall/raw/master/vzfirewall chmod +x vzfirewall

Optional: vps.premount action script to ensure vzfirewall is run

(handy when you vzmigrate containers)

cd /etc/vz/conf (test -f vps.premount && echo "vps.premount exists, manual integration required") || (
wget http://github.com/DmitryKoterov/vzfirewall/raw/master/vps.premount;
chmod +x vps.premount )

SYNOPSIS

1. Modify the file e.g. /etc/vz/conf/4.conf (note that the whole FIREWALL directive is prefixed by "#" character, because else OpenVZ issues warnings about multi-line directives which are not supported): ... #FIREWALL="

   host.allowed.to.every.port

   yet.another.host

   * # means "any host"

   [25]

   host.allowed.to.access.smtp

   * # means "any"

   [80,443]

   hosts.allowed.to.access.two.ports

   [udp:53]

   *

   [CUSTOM]

   # You may use "$THIS" macro which is replaced by this machine IP

   # (and, if the machine has many IPs, it will be multiplicated).

   -A INPUT -i eth2 -d $THIS -j ACCEPT

   # Or you may use commands with no references to $THIS (only

   # such commands are allowed for 0.conf file).

   -A INPUT -i eth1 -j ACCEPT

   #" ... We use FIREWALL directive in plain VE configs, not in separate files, to allow to vzmigrate it easily from one node to another. Note the "#" characters again.

2. Run:

   vzfirewall -a - to apply rules

   vzfirewall -t - to test rules with no application

   vzfirewall -h -v - vzfirewall documentation