I'm using gitlab.com as my repository and I'm hosting my own gitlab runner in my own VPC in AWS. This is working fine however, I would like to add some additional layer of security by tightening my NACL to only allow the gitlab.com SaaS to reach my VPC.
Their own documentation states that it should work and list a few ip ranges used by them and cloudflare. However, it still isn't working. It is obvious that it is the NACL because simply adding 0.0.0.0/0 as and allow in the inbound makes the runner job complete as intended. However, removing 0.0.0.0/0 and only allowing the ip's listed below makes the gitlab job get stuck and it behaves as if no connection is established.
34.74.226.0/24
34.74.90.64/28
173.245.48.0/20
103.21.244.0/22
103.22.200.0/22
103.31.4.0/22
141.101.64.0/18
108.162.192.0/18
190.93.240.0/20
188.114.96.0/20
197.234.240.0/22
198.41.128.0/17
162.158.0.0/15
104.16.0.0/13
104.24.0.0/14
172.64.0.0/13
131.0.72.0/22
2400:cb00::/32
2606:4700::/32
2803:f800::/32
2405:b500::/32
2405:8100::/32
2a06:98c0::/29
2c0f:f248::/32
After having added all these ranges to my NACL as inbound rules. It still is unable to connect without allowing 0.0.0.0/0.
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Here is an overview of my VPC setup:
The public subnet NACL has all the ips listed above as allowed, on all ports for all protocols on inbound connections. The outbound is currently set as 0.0.0.0/0.
The private subnet allows 0.0.0.0/0 for both inbound and outbound.
I seemed to have solved the issue. The problem was that I had not added an allow in the NACL for local connections. Hence the private subnet was unable to connect to the NAT gateway.
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I am fairly new to GCP networking and I could use some guidance. I'm sure there is a simple explanation for what I'd like to accomplish. I believe its just a simple firewall rule but I'm not sure how to configure the rule.
I current have 3 subnets in the same VPC network. I'd like subnet-a to be a "jump-network" for admins doing work on compute instances in subnet-b and subnet-c over various ports. i.e. 22, 3389, 80, 443 etc etc. Admins will work on a jump VM (windows) in subnet-a and access compute instances (both windows/linux) in subnet-b and subnet-c. (using private IP addresses)
I'm sure there are simple firewall rules to allow connectivity between subnets inside the same VPC. Can someone help me? What are the firewall rules?
Thanks. Any and all input from the community is greatly appreciated.
Ive tried several firewall rules from various google searches, but I don't want to leave my network open to the malicious threat actors by incorrectly configuring the firewall.
As answered by #JohnHanley in another post
VPC subnets within the same VPC can communicate with each other. The VPC Firewall rule default-allow-internal allows all TCP, UDP, and ICMP traffic between resources within the same VPC. The key is to use the internal (private) IP address.
When creating VPC Networks, you have the option to automatically create default firewall rules such as default-allow-internal which allows connectivity between instances on any port. As mentioned, you'll just have to use the Internal IP address of the instance(s) that you are trying to connect to
You may refer to this documentation as a helpful guide for creating simple Firewall rules for your use case.
I was able to connect my private Ec2 instance to the internet through NAT instance.
wget google.com was successful.
But when I attached a NACL to my private subnet.I wasn't able to connect to the internet.Can anyone please tell me what is wrong with my NACL.
10.0.1.0/24 and 10.0.2.0/24 are CIDRs of public subnet(which has the NAT instance)
private NACL inbound rule
private NACL outbound rule
Also, when I add rule to accept all traffic from internet.It works. Is it correct practice to add this rule ?
Based on the comments.
The issue was due to blocking inbound internet traffic (0.0.0.0/0). From the Instances cannot access the internet in AWS docs, to enable internet access of the instance using NAT, the following must be ensured:
Ensure that the network ACLs that are associated with the private subnet and public subnets do not have rules that block inbound or outbound internet traffic. For the ping command to work, the rules must also allow inbound and outbound ICMP traffic.
Question from comments:
But just one question how will whitelisting work in this case. If I only want to download certain libraries using the internet and not allow any api requests ?
If you know IP ranges of the public servers that these libraries are going to be downloaded from, then you could limit the internet traffic to only these ranges. But if the range is not fixed or unknown you have to allow all (0.0.0.0/0) internet traffic in the rules.
Generally, security groups are used as primary way of controlling network traffic. NACLs are good due to their their denying ability. Security groups can't explicitly deny traffic, thus NACLs are helpful in cases where you want to explicitly deny some IPs. But in your case, you are allow only traffic. Thus I think the use of default NACLs would be sufficient and could be considered.
My application is working fine on the Amazon EC2 Windows Server. But when I am trying to access the same through the elastic public IP, it is not accessible. I have seen the inbound configurations and the ports(HTTP,HTTPS,SSH) are enabled. Infact, I added a rule to All Traffic from Anywhere. But no success.
Firewall ports are open in host server. The URL is accessible from private IP from other EC2 machines in same network
http://3.45.54.89:8080/My-App/ ----> Public IP- Not Working
http://10.0.2.23:8080/My-App/ ----> Private IP - Working
Please guide. Stuck Badly in this
The fact that you can access the port from within the network points out that you indeed have a rule somewhere in the VPC that is blocking the connection from outside the network.
Here are the components you need to access a resource inside a VPC from outside the VPC:
Internet Gateway: This is the entry point into the VPC. Seems like this is already working as expected as you can access the instance in the first place.
(optionally) Bastion host: If the resource you are trying to connect to is in a private subnet you need a bastion host in the public subnet. Read more about it here.
NACL: If you have not changed the defaults, this should allow the requests to flow through. Note that NACL are stateless i.e. you need to allow both inbound and outbound.
Security Group: As the final layer, the security group should allow the traffic on the ports, to the appropriate cidr block.
Based on the scenario you have described, my guess is that your instance is in a private subnet. If it is, then you need to route the requests through something in the public subnet.
Edit the firewall ports for an IIS website in Windows Server. if the iis apps are not in the inbound list please add them and try again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQcklFuWrcw
I recently had to completely rebuild my AWS EC2 environment, because I accidentally deleted the SSH key, thinking it was something else. Unfortunately, I cannot access my Tomcat instance which I have confirmed is running on that EC2 instance.
I have added the following security groups for inbound HTTP traffic:
Type. Protocol Port Range Source
HTTP TCP 80 0.0.0.0/0
HTTP TCP 80 ::/0
Custom TCP Rule TCP 8080 0.0.0.0/0
Custom TCP Rule TCP 8080 ::/0
SSH TCP 22 (my IP address)
I have three security groups, and the above rules were added to the group named default:
rds-launch-wizard
launch-wizard-1
**default
I purchased a domain via AWS which I have pointed to this EC2 instance using Route 53. Previously, the DNS was available, but now it is not. However, there is a bigger fundamental problem here because I can't even ping the public IP of my EC2 instance.
I am in fact able to access my EC2 instance via SSH on port 22, which is why I was able to setup Java and Tomcat (both of which I have confirmed are running).
I suspect that some state from my previous configuration is responsible for this problem, but I don't even know where to begin looking for something.
Any help would be appreciated.
To have inbound/outbound internet access to your EC2, you need to look for three things:
Are you able to SSH from outside or inside AWS via an internet gateway (IGW)? If you can SSH from outside then you already have IGW setup properly. Otherwise, make sure your subnet's route table points to IGW by having a route like below:
0.0.0.0/0 igw-efxxxxxxx Active No
Network ACL: Go to your EC2's subnet and find its associated NACL
Create both inbound and outbound rules to ALLOW traffic to the above NACL by adding a rule like below:
100 ALL Traffic ALL ALL 0.0.0.0/0 ALLOW
Security Groups: Your security groups look good. No changes required there. However, based on the comments you made below it appears that, while you did define a security group with the proper inbound rules, for whatever reason you did not associate that security group with your EC2 instance. As a result, the inbound rules you defined were not being applied. To fix this, from the EC2 instance tag access the following:
Actions -> Networking -> Change Security Groups
Then, associate your security group with your instance by checking the appropriate box. After making these changes, your inbound rules should take effect, and you should be able to hit your Tomcat instance running on EC2.
I am very new to AWS and networking. I have been playing with network ACL. I realized that if I don't allow outbound port 443 (HTTPS) on the network ACL, I wouldn't be able to use a browser to go to https://www.google.com from within the EC2 instance in the subnet associated with this ACL.
Likewise, if I don't allow outbound port 80, I wouldn't be able to go to http://www.cnn.com.
This confused me. When I allow port 80 outbound on the ACL, am I allowing the EC2 to talk to port 80 on the CNN server, from an ephemeral port on my EC2, or am I allowing the EC2 to initiate a connection from port 80 on the EC2?
use the security groups at instance level to have security at instance level.And unlike security group, ACL is stateless and works at subnet level i.e if you want your instances to communicate over port 80(http) then you have add an inbound and outbound rule allowing port 80.
You don't have to add any rules. The default network ACL is configured to allow all traffic to flow in and out of the subnets to which it is associated. Each network ACL also includes a rule whose rule number is an asterisk. This rule ensures that if a packet doesn't match any of the other numbered rules, it's denied. You can't modify or remove this rule.
Rules allow all IPv6 traffic to flow in and out of your subnet. We also add rules whose rule numbers are an asterisk (Catch All) that ensures that a packet is denied if it doesn't match any of the other defined numbered rules.
A network ACL has separate inbound and outbound rules (Stateless), and each rule can either allow or deny traffic.
Out Bound Rules allow outbound traffic from the subnet to the Internet. In other words it is matching the traffic flow with the defined rules in the ACLs list and apply it (ALLOW/DENY).
If you have private instances that should not be accessible by public users in the internet it is best practice from security point of view to place these instances in a private subnet and use NAT instance in a public subnet and make all traffic flow goes through this NAT instance to make patch updates and get the public access.
For more information, Check Amazon Docs