Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 14:54:27 -0600 From: "Dustin Puryear" <dpuryear@usa.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Firewall question for public DNS server Message-ID: <PGECILGGNJGDPJKLFEMICEKBCKAA.dpuryear@usa.net> In-Reply-To: <PGECILGGNJGDPJKLFEMIEEGMCKAA.dpuryear@usa.net>
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Has anyone setup FreeBSD as a firewall in front of DNS servers? Regards, Dustin > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dustin Puryear > Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 10:53 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Firewall question for public DNS server > > > I am having problems configuring a FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE firewall to allow a > DNS server to work. When I say "work" I mean it is unable to > resolve names. > Instead, it just times out. Please note that we are using static > NAT. Also, > the DNS server is NOT located on the firewall. (On a related > note, if I run > a DNS server on the firewall it works.) The DNS server does have > a public IP > address via the static NAT mapping, but I would think it should work > regardless. At least, for resolving names. > > Okay, so I have a firewall at 10.0.0.1 private a.b.c.d public. Via NAT the > DNS server, which will be for public use, has a private address > of 10.0.0.5 > and w.x.y.z public. If I install the DNS server on the firewall > and use the > rules: > > 01500 divert 8668 ip from any to any via rl0 > ... > 02600 allow udp from a.b.c.d to any 53 keep-state > 02700 allow tcp from a.b.c.d to any 53 keep-state > > The DNS server on the firewall works and can resolve names for > me. However, > if I put the DNS server on another internal machine and use the rules: > > 01500 divert 8668 ip from any to any via rl0 > ... > 02800 allow udp from w.x.y.z to any 53 keep-state > 02900 allow tcp from w.x.y.z to any 53 keep-state > > The internal server times out. Okay, so I am thinking that > perhaps since the > divert rule comes first I should be using the internal address: > > 01500 divert 8668 ip from any to any via rl0 > ... > 02800 allow udp from 10.0.0.5 to any 53 keep-state > 02900 allow tcp from 10.0.0.5 to any 53 keep-state > > Unfortunately, I get the same result. The DNS server cannot > resolve the name > and nslookup eventually times out. Now, I can make it work by adding the > rule: > > 03640 allow udp from any to 10.0.0.5 > > But why is this necessary? Assuming my DNS server does not need to be > accessible to external users I should just need to allow the server to hit > remote DNS server's and to expect replies via the keep-state. Am I missing > something here? > > BTW, I am including my full ruleset below just in case. > > 00100 allow ip from any to any via lo0 > 00200 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8 > 00300 deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any > 00400 allow ip from any to any via nge0 > 00500 deny ip from 10.0.0.0/24 to any in recv rl0 > 00600 deny ip from a.b.c.0/26 to any in recv nge0 > 00700 deny ip from any to 10.0.0.0/8 via rl0 > 00800 deny ip from any to 172.16.0.0/12 via rl0 > 00900 deny ip from any to 192.168.0.0/16 via rl0 > 01000 deny ip from any to 0.0.0.0/8 via rl0 > 01100 deny ip from any to 169.254.0.0/16 via rl0 > 01200 deny ip from any to 192.0.2.0/24 via rl0 > 01300 deny ip from any to 224.0.0.0/4 via rl0 > 01400 deny ip from any to 240.0.0.0/4 via rl0 > 01500 divert 8668 ip from any to any via rl0 > 01600 deny ip from 10.0.0.0/8 to any via rl0 > 01700 deny ip from 172.16.0.0/12 to any via rl0 > 01800 deny ip from 192.168.0.0/16 to any via rl0 > 01900 deny ip from 0.0.0.0/8 to any via rl0 > 02000 deny ip from 169.254.0.0/16 to any via rl0 > 02100 deny ip from 192.0.2.0/24 to any via rl0 > 02200 deny ip from 224.0.0.0/4 to any via rl0 > 02300 deny ip from 240.0.0.0/4 to any via rl0 > 02400 allow tcp from any to any established > 02500 allow ip from any to any frag > 02600 allow udp from a.b.c.d to any 53 keep-state # for DNS on firewall > 02700 allow tcp from a.b.c.d to any 53 keep-state # "" > 02800 allow udp from w.x.y.z to any 53 keep-state # for DNS on > another box > 02900 allow tcp from w.x.y.z to any 53 keep-state # "" > 03000 allow tcp from any to 10.0.0.5 25 setup > 03100 allow tcp from any to 10.0.0.20 80 via rl0 setup # web > 03200 allow tcp from any to 10.0.0.21 80 via rl0 setup # web > 03300 allow tcp from any to any 22 setup > 03400 allow icmp from any to any keep-state > 03500 allow tcp from any to any setup > 03640 allow udp from any to 10.0.0.5 # crappy fix to allow DNS to work > 03900 deny log logamount 10 tcp from any to any in recv rl0 setup > 65535 deny ip from any to any > > Regards, Dustin > > --- > Dustin Puryear <dpuryear@usa.net> > Information Systems Consultant > http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear > In the beginning the Universe was created. > This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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