We are using Avi networks on AWS and I have everything set up, but with relaxed Security Group settings.
I would like to tighten the security on the controller instance. So I was wondering which ports needed to be open on the controller's security group, and from which source IP(s)/range(s) they should accept connections from.
The Avi Controller requires port 443 for UI access and uses ports 8443 and 22 for communication with the service engines; hence ports 443, 8443 and 22 need to be open on the controller's security group. As for the source IP's, you will want to include any IP addresses/ranges that will need access to the controller UI.
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I have 2 VMs (CentOS), running in the same VNET (and subnet).
They both have a static public IP.
I have a Network Security Group which defines inbound and outbound rules, attached to both NICs as well as to the VNET.
One of the inbound rules is the default-allow-ssh rule.
All good so far, using SSH, I can access both VMs from outside Azure, from my own computer from anywhere on the web.
On 1 of the VMs I'm running a webserver.
Exposing the webserver on port 80 and adding a new NSG inbound security rule on port 80 (src: any, src port range: *, dest: any, port: 80, protocol: any) allows met to access the webserver from anywhere: from my pc from anywhere on the web, from my other VM within Azure, so just as I was expecting.
Now when I change the port of the webserver from 80 to for example 7181:
I can still do "curl http://[PUBLIC_IP]:7181" from the server I'm hosting the webserver on AS WELL AS from the other CentOS server sitting in the same VNET (subnet) BUT no longer from my pc or any pc outside the Azure realm (the web).
Firewalld is not running on the webserver, nor do I have iptables set, only NSG rules define inbound and outbound traffic.
The host of the webserver is always accessible from anywhere outside Azure, using ssh. The webservice itself, on port 80, including a proper inbound NSG rule, also works just fine from anywhere out- and inside Azure. The custom port, configured identically as port 80 or 22 in the NSG (except for the port number of course), is accessible only from inside the same VNET.
Anyone?
(the error I get is the well-known: ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED)
NSG screenshot:
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Reboot of the VM instance solved the problem. So it looks like adding/updating NSG rules on-the-fly does not affect running instances immediately or something else takes a lot of time sync and to take effect. I must have forgotten about my early Windows days, where reboots were pretty standard when changing configuration or installing new things. Anyway, thank you all for your time and effort on this question.
Asking the obious: Have you added a rule for Port 7181 in the NSG?
My tests says: This kind of Error comes from NSG.
A CURL from within the Network might lead to wrong opinions. You should trace the route when connection the IP on Port 7181.
Create separate rules for each port you want to open. As far as I know you cannot specify a list of ports in "port" field. Only single port, port range or *.
FYI: the connection from other machine in VNET is working because there is "AllowVnetInBound" rule.
I am new to cloud computing. Sorry if this is a silly question. I have created a VM from azure portal. My requirement is not to allow the user using the VM to access public website. Can anyone help me how to achieve this functionality?
Thanks
You probably have a Network Security Group that was created when you created the VM. In there you can specify rules for inbound and outbound data traffic.
Find the NSG and add a rule that blocks all outbound traffic from the VM. You should still be able to connect to the VM, it just can't connect anywhere. You can also make the rule only block traffic bound to the internet if you still wish for it to have access to other machines in the same virtual network.
Network Security Groups documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-networks-nsg
My requirement is not to allow the user using the VM to access public
website.
According to your description, you just want user can't access the public website, as we know website common listen on 80 and 443, so we can add outbound rules to deny port 443, 80 and port 8080 to achieve this functionality.
I deny port 80, 443 and 8080, then my VM can't access https://google.com and http://google.com.
Update:
I have a Virtual Machine created in the new azure portal (portal.azure.com)
Now I can connect to by using the Remote Desktop by the port 3389, without any problems.
I am asking for a guide to setting my virtual machine can be remoted over the port 443 also (since the working network just allows outcoming 443 only)
With the classic portal, I just need to add an "end point" and that works.
However with the new portal, in the "network security group", I tried to modify the "inbound security rules", changed the default value 3389 to 443, but I got no luck.
Edited: captured screenshots
New VM created as "Azure Resource Manager" (ARM) have different options and features but they lost end-points. Endpoints, in classic deployment, allowed to remap internal ports to external ports, changing the value.
Now, in ARM, to have a similar behaviour, you have to use LoadBalancer. Read at the end of https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mast/2016/02/04/azure-networking-public-ip-addresses-in-classic-vs-arm/ for an example to map external 50000 to internal 80.
As I understand them, Network Security Groups don't actually do any port mapping, just allow/deny access to certain ports. If you want the RDP server to still listen on 3389 and for external RDP requests to go to 443, you'll need to use Azure Load Balancer with NAT rules (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/load-balancer-get-started-internet-arm-ps/#create-lb-rules-nat-rules-a-probe-and-a-load-balancer). Alternatively, you could configure your RDP server to listen on port 443. It's up to you which you prefer :).
I have created a CentOS 7.1 VM using Resource Manager deployment model.
I am not able to access the application using a browser on a machine connected to internet.
However I am able to access the application on same machine and other VM on same virtual network using private IP address.
I configured Network Security Group and allowed port 80 and 443 in Inbound Rules.
Well, it turned out that I needed to open ports under "Inbound Security Rules" and needed to open all in "Source Port Range". For doing so, i needed to put * there and in Destination port for https - 443 etc.
This * thing was the catch which i was missing in all the Inbound security rules for allowing the ports.
I am new to this Aws security to deploy in amazon webservice.
When i restrict security groups with some IP address, my application runs dead slow or it may not run also, thats the reason i am getting connection time out when i try to call webservice which is deployed in aws. When i open the IP address restriction in Security groups it works fine.
How to configure my AWS using security groups. so that my application is accessible to only to some restricted networks.
Please help me put on this.
Below are the my security group details
INBOUND
Type Protocol Port range Source
MYSQL TCP 3306 X.X.X.X/X
SSH TCP 22 X.X.X.X/X
HTTP TCP 80 X.X.X.X/X
OUBOUND
Type Protocol Port range Source
MYSQL TCP 3306 0.0.0.0/0
SSH TCP 22 0.0.0.0/0
HTTP TCP 80 0.0.0.0/0
i am using hibernate for DB connection from my web application. But everytime i am getting connection timeout with the above security group. but if i remove the IP address restrictions it works fine.
Note: DB connection works fine from mysql workbench
<property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://schemaname.amazonDBInsatnce:3306/test</property>
Security Groups will not "slow down" access to an Amazon EC2 instance. They are used to determine which ports are open to a given range of IP addresses. Either the traffic is allowed through, or it is not.
Security Groups can be defined for Inbound and Outbound traffic. By default, all Inbound traffic is denied and all Outbound traffic is permitted.
It is possible that your application is trying to access some external service and is timing-out, hence causing delays. Permitted all Outbound traffic is usually acceptable, so try that first and see if your application performs better.
Also, check the log files that your application is producing to see if any errors are being generated, which will give you a hint as to what might be happening.