This is the output of iptables -L on a webmin-managed box I just saw:

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp flags:ACK/ACK
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere            state ESTABLISHED
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere            state RELATED
ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            udp spt:domain dpts:1024:65535
ACCEPT     icmp --  anywhere             anywhere            icmp any
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:ftp
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:ssh
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:smtp
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:domain
ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            udp dpt:domain
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:http
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:pop3
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:imap
ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere             anywhere            udp dpt:imap
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:https
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:mysql
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp spt:mysql
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpts:terabase:samsung-unidex
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:ndmp
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:dnp
LOG        all  --  anywhere             anywhere            LOG level debug prefix `DROPPED = '
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp dpt:ftp-data 

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp spt:ftp-data dpt:ftp-data
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere             anywhere            tcp spt:ftp dpt:ftp

Lovely that it has all those ports and whatnot opened up, but what’s with the ACCEPT policies?

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Tags: fail, failwall, webmin

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