We can further filter based on source traffic with firewalld rich rules.Firewalld is a firewall management solution available for many Linux distributions which acts as a frontend for the iptables packet filtering system provided by the Linux kernel. While these basic examples demonstrate opening a port to any source, this is usually not desirable. We have seen that the firewall in CentOS 7 can be modified to open a specific port, or more preferably we can open it to a service.
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Still not a fan of firewalld? Don’t worry, you can always install ifconfig in CentOS 7 instead, however note that this is considered deprecated. Why would we want to use services if we can just specify the port? Modules can be specified in a service, for example samba.xml loads the module “nf_conntrack_netbios_ns” for us when it’s enabled, along with four different ports which is a lot easier than doing all of this ourselves as we don’t need to memorize all of the ports required for a service. The services in the /usr/lib/firewalld/services/ directory should NOT be modified, changes should be copied into /etc/firewalld/services/ followed by a reload of firewall-cmd to pick up the changes. We can create custom services by copying one of these into the /etc/firewalld/services/ directory and then customizing it. This option is not required for viewing pages locally or developing Web pages. If you plan to make your Web server publicly available, enable this option. HTTP is the protocol used to serve Web pages. ~]# cat /usr/lib/firewalld/services/http.xml
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Here’s what the http service we just used looks like. This is a predefined service and can be found as an XML file in the /usr/lib/firewalld/services/ directory. Now if we list the services that are accepted through the firewall, we will see http listed along with ssh and dhcpv6-client, which are allowed through by default. ~]# firewall-cmd -permanent -add-service=http For example instead of opening TCP port 80, we can use the ‘http’ service. Rather than manually specifying a port number to allow through the firewall, we can make use of a bunch of predefined services which may be easier. We can also open a range of ports in the same way. Should we wish to remove a port, we can use ‘-remove-port=’ instead. ~]# firewall-cmd -list-portsĪs expected we see that TCP port 100 is open. We can check the ports that are opened in the current default zone with ‘-list-ports’. If the -permanent flag is not specified, this will only change the running configuration but will not be saved. ~]# firewall-cmd -permanent -add-port=100/tcp First we modify the persistent configuration, then we reload firewall-cmd to load this change into the running configuration. Opening a port in firewalld is fairly straightforward, in the below example we allow traffic in from any source IP address to TCP port 100.
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You will see that while we can manually open a specific port, it is often easier and beneficial to allow based on predefined services instead. This tutorial will walk you through opening a port in the default firewall in CentOS 7, firewalld.