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Maverickcdn

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So Im having a noob moment and need some advice. This is likely unnecessary but is more for peace of mind knowing these door knockers are ignored

Looking to create a custom chain in iptables to list out some banned IPs probing my VPN port, can someone take a look and let me know if Im doing this properly. VPN server is on 31194/TCP and I want to ignore requests from my OBFS server on 10.1.1.11 (has fail2ban running monitoring OBFS port connections)

I have a script that checks the status of iptables rules and a script that looks for persistent door knockers and adds them to a ban list automatically so I cant go willy nilly adding IP's to the INPUT table without breaking the script that checks the rules status, I could code the checker script to be smarter but Id like to keep the INPUT chain cleaner in the long run.

Creating a chain called VPNBANNED that will contain some IP's/CIDR's to ban
Code:
iptables -N VPNBANNED   # create VPNBANNED chain
iptables -I INPUT ! -s 10.1.1.11 -p tcp --dport 31194 -j VPNBANNED   # forward anything not from 10.1.1.11 on 31194/TCP to VPNBANNED (will be first rule in INPUT chain)
iptables -I VPNBANNED -s 'badip/cidr here' -j logdrop   # jump banned hits to logging and drop

Code:
MavMAIN|>/jffs/scripts| iptables -L INPUT -n
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
VPNBANNED  tcp  -- !10.1.1.11            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:31194
LOG        tcp  -- !10.1.1.11            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:31194 state NEW LOG flags 0 level 1 prefix "openvpn31194 "
ACCEPT     tcp  --  'workiphere'       0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:31194
           tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:31194 state NEW recent: SET name: DEFAULT side: source mask: 255.255.255.255
logdrop    tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:31194 state NEW recent: UPDATE seconds: 180 hit_count: 3 name: DEFAULT side: source mask: 255.255.255.255
ACCEPT     tcp  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:31194

Really just want to ensure that any connection that doesnt hit a drop rule in VPNBANNED will continue down the INPUT chain to logging/throttling rules and eventually accept rules

Any input on this would be greatly appreciated.

TL/DR - Im too lazy to research this and learn to do it properly today!
 
Pretty sure I answered my own question


https://www.linuxtopia.org/Linux_Firewall_iptables/x4604.html

Code:
iptables -N VPNBANNED   # create VPNBANNED chain
iptables -I INPUT ! -s 10.1.1.11 -p tcp --dport 31194 -j VPNBANNED   # forward anything not from 10.1.1.11 on 31194/TCP to VPNBANNED (will be first rule in INPUT chain)
iptables -I VPNBANNED -j RETURN
iptables -I VPNBANNED -s 'badip/cidr here' -j logdrop   # jump banned hits to logging and drop
 
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