1 Topic by tiidub (edited by tiidub 2016-07-28 13:32:32)

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Topic: How to allow certain IPs to connect to server?

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Im relaying incoming message from another server to this server and i created a new port 5011 for it while closing port 25 since i wont be reveiving mail from another server.

So in /etc/default/iptables i did:
-A INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -j DROP
-A INPUT -p tcp --dport 5011 -j ACCEPT

How do i make it so that i can restrict 5011 port to only ACCEPT from certain IPs?

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2 Reply by ZhangHuangbin

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Re: How to allow certain IPs to connect to server?

Try '-s' (source IP):

-A INPUT -p tcp -s 192.168.1.1 --dport 5011 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp --dport 5011 -j DROP

Port 25 is used to communicate between servers, this is required if you want to receive email from other mail servers.

3 Reply by tiidub (edited by tiidub 2016-07-28 14:21:10)

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Re: How to allow certain IPs to connect to server?

yes im fully aware closing port 25 will close it off from all other mail servers since its the standard used.
My intention is to just allow my own servers to send to this server.

ok so if i want to add more of my own IPs do this?

-A INPUT -p tcp -s <ip1> <ip2> <ip3> --dport 5011 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -s 192.168.1.1 --dport 5011 -j ACCEPT

or this:
-A INPUT -p tcp -s <ip1>  --dport 5011 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -s <ip2>  --dport 5011 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -s <ip3> --dport 5011 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp --dport 5011 -j DROP