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    Pfsense open ports [SOLVED]

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 2.0-RC Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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      vorgusa
      last edited by

      I never re-enabled ssh, but I will head home for lunch and set it up.  By the way, I have never done anything related to port 53, so I know that should not be showing.  At work, if I do:

      host -T internalserver.local MyWAN-IP

      I get my internal IP address for the internal server, so that is definitely not being blocked in any way  (-T is for TCP connection)

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        vorgusa
        last edited by

        here is that file

        rules.txt

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        • jimpJ
          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
          last edited by

          pass  in  quick  on $WAN reply-to ( re0 x.x.x.x )  proto TCP  from any to x.x.x.x keep state  label "USER_RULE: OpenVPN Home wizard"
          
          

          There is no port on that rule for OpenVPN - so it's letting all TCP traffic in to your WAN IP.

          Did you alter that rule?

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            vorgusa
            last edited by

            Nope I did not, both times I just let the wizard create the rule (USER_RULE: OpenVPN Home wizard) and did not alter it.  I will check on it when I get home

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              vorgusa
              last edited by

              the screenshot I put of my rules page clearly has port 443 on it before hand. That would be the port you were talking about in the previous line?  why would the port be listed there but not in the rules.debug?

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              • jimpJ
                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                last edited by

                ok, edit and save your OpenVPN rule, see if that fixes it. Make sure to re-select UDP as the protocol if it's supposed to be UDP and not TCP.

                I fixed a bug with the wizard earlier today that was apparently causing this to happen, too.

                The protocol (TCP or UDP) was getting into the rule as upper case, not lower case, and the port was being left off because it didn't match "tcp" or "udp".

                Anyone on a new snap should be OK though. At least the next new one.

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                  vorgusa
                  last edited by

                  Just attached part of the config.xml  If I change the 3rd one to match the other two and then restart my box, would that fix the problem? /cf/conf/config.xml

                  rules.txt

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                    vorgusa
                    last edited by

                    I am using TCP and I just upgraded to the newer snapshot a little while ago hoping it would fix the problem, but guess we nailed it down to that rule.

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                    • jimpJ
                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                      last edited by

                      Just edit and save the rule - no need to alter config.xml

                      The problem is this:

                      <protocol>TCP</protocol>
                      

                      Needs to be:

                      <protocol>tcp</protocol>
                      

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                        vorgusa
                        last edited by

                        :( cant get into the web interface now.  Guessing thats a good thing since its open to the world, lol

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                          vorgusa
                          last edited by

                          hmmm ok, so where can I edit and save the rule.. is the rule.debug file going to be persistent?

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                          • jimpJ
                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                            last edited by

                            Edit the OpenVPN rule on Firewall > Rules on the WAN tab - edit that, save, and it should fix itself.

                            Or update once the next snapshot uploads, I committed a couple different protections against this.

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                              vorgusa
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                              Worked like a charm.. I got someone to run nmap on the IP and the firewall is back up.  Thanks for your help!  Did you guys find a bug in the Wizard?

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                              • jimpJ
                                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                last edited by

                                Yeah, it was a problem in the wizard:

                                https://rcs.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense/repos/mainline/commits/6be90004d477bd74c5610ae341aae3ae9fcc9281

                                But I added some extra protection so that on future snapshots even people who have the 'bad' rules won't be harmed by it:
                                https://rcs.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense/repos/mainline/commits/06b3df52262764723289a3ac65c3a7c05a8a8f4c
                                https://rcs.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense/repos/mainline/commits/7ec0e6e2f5206d750a6c00d598700836a57d056f

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