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    • denningsrogueD
      denningsrogue
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      johnpoz

      I don't know what you mean by "Do you have any firewall rules in your floating?".

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      • denningsrogueD
        denningsrogue
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        Well I've tried just about everything I can think of.  I deleted both the forward and the rule.  When I conduct a port scan against the public IP, port 22 still shows as open.  Any suggestions would be welcomed.

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        • denningsrogueD
          denningsrogue
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          Is there something i can do from the command line?

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          • DerelictD
            Derelict LAYER 8 Netgate
            last edited by

            There's another rule somewhere passing that traffic.

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            • johnpozJ
              johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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              looking in  your floating tab – are there rules there. These are looked at first before any other rules on specific tabs.

              Post up your rules.debug file.  Seems to me your not even using pfsense to access this IP your sshing too.

              Sniff on your wan and lan interfaces when you do this access - you actually see this traffic passthru pfsense?  You actually see a state for this connection?

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              • denningsrogueD
                denningsrogue
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                No floating rules. Here's a screen shot of the tab.

                [Screen Shot 2014-10-18 at 06.36.56.png](/public/imported_attachments/1/Screen Shot 2014-10-18 at 06.36.56.png)

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                • johnpozJ
                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                  Yeah that image is not valid.  So show us this traffic going through pfsense with some simple sniffs, and post up your rules.debug..

                  What does that grep show for 22, as we dig before after you deleted the rules..  There is just no rules showing this should work, so traffic must not be going through pfsense.

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                  • denningsrogueD
                    denningsrogue
                    last edited by

                    Here is the debug file.

                    rules.debug.txt

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                    • denningsrogueD
                      denningsrogue
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                      I have no idea how the traffic could go any where but through pfSense.  The box has 2 NICS. One connected to the outside world and one to the inside.  There is no other software running on the box – its not a virtual implementation.  I have to take my son to a volleyball tournament right now.  I'll run some sniffs when I get back this afternoon.

                      Again, thank you so much for all your efforts.  I really appreciate it.

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                      • johnpozJ
                        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                        Thought you said you deleted the rule??

                        NAT Inbound Redirects

                        rdr on em0 proto tcp from any to 216.xxx.xxx.xxx port 22 -> $miniserver

                        Well being able to hit ssh, you didn't really hide your IP very well - sorry my curiosity got the better of me.  Pretty easy with a /29 mask

                        So yup 22 is open, and I see the 311 and 625

                        PORT    STATE  SERVICE
                        22/tcp  open  ssh
                        311/tcp  open  asip-webadmin
                        625/tcp  open  apple-xsrvr-admin

                        Again you say you deleted your port forward, but its clearly still there…  That needs to be removed..

                        Also what does miniserver resolve to in your alias?  I personally not a fan of using them in rules where its a single IP..  But you need to get rid of the port forward rule that is still in there.

                        So do you have UPnP enabled?

                        UPnPd rdr anchor

                        rdr-anchor "miniupnpd"

                        Could this 10.0.1.20 box be opening up the rule, and since seems your nat is still listed?  I am wondering if your rule is also there just not in debug.

                        Take a look at actual live rules with

                        pfctl -sa, this will give us everything.  Send it to me PM, or PM me and will send you my personal email address, so your not posting that public.

                        edit2:  so you have a /29 -- where are the other publics? being used?

                        how exactly are you connected to the internet??  This is very strange - doing a traceroute to you

                        13  ler2-axia-ge.yyc.platinum.ca (69.31.193.254)  81.638 ms  81.520 ms  81.319 ms
                        14  10.17.3.6 (10.17.3.6)  76.219 ms  83.418 ms  79.970 ms
                        15  10.17.2.6 (10.17.2.6)  106.304 ms  106.985 ms  96.545 ms

                        How can there be 10.x addresses in the trace from me to you?? I can say I have never seen such a thing before!!

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                        • denningsrogueD
                          denningsrogue
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                          When removing the forward and rule didnot work I put them back.

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                          • denningsrogueD
                            denningsrogue
                            last edited by

                            Mini server is 10.0.1.20

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                            • johnpozJ
                              johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                              "When removing the forward and rule didnot work I put them back. "

                              what does pfctl -sa show for when you remove them!!

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                              • C
                                cmb
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                                @johnpoz:

                                how exactly are you connected to the internet??  This is very strange - doing a traceroute to you

                                13  ler2-axia-ge.yyc.platinum.ca (69.31.193.254)  81.638 ms  81.520 ms  81.319 ms
                                14  10.17.3.6 (10.17.3.6)  76.219 ms  83.418 ms  79.970 ms
                                15  10.17.2.6 (10.17.2.6)  106.304 ms  106.985 ms  96.545 ms

                                How can there be 10.x addresses in the trace from me to you??

                                Some routers in the path there with private IP addressing. Generally ISPs don't do that for a variety of reasons, but there are some (largely outside the US, where IP space is more scarce) who have no choice. Some use CGNAT reserved IP space for that as well, and some do questionable things like Shaw Canada uses US DoD-assigned 7.0.0.0/8 IP space internally (DoD doesn't announce 7./8 on the Internet so that's OK…for now at least).

                                That's less than ideal, but not in and of itself indicative of any kind of problem.

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                                • denningsrogueD
                                  denningsrogue
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                                  With the great help of johnpoz I finally got port 22 closed.  I had to delete my ssh forward and rule and then reboot.  Thanks again John.

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