25 -> 8025
80 -> 8080
110 -> 8110
This works fine. Out of obsessive neatness rather than for any good technical reason I would like to block direct access to the apps through their non-privileged (8xxx) ports. When I insert a filter command to do this, it blocks the redirected traffic as well. Does anyone have a suggestion for me? The commands are listed below, with the one that breaks connectivity commented out with ##
Regards Trevor Turton
#!/bin/bash
###############################################################################
# This script redirects various well-known services to local unprivileged ports
# and block the other privileged ports.
# 2004-04-13 Trevor Turton
###############################################################################
#
# turn on IP forwarding:
#
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
#
# redirect well-known services' ports to local unprivileged ports
#
/sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 25 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8025
/sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8080
/sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 110 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8110
/sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 443 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 8443
#
# accept traffic addressed to the serviced tcp ports
#
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 110 -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
#
# filter out traffic to remaining privileged tcp ports
#
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 0:1023 -j DROP
## the following command blocks -eth0 --dport 25,80,110,443 as well!!
## /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -i eth0 --dport 8000:8443 -j DROP
#
# accept traffic to serviced udp port (dns)
#
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
#
# filter out traffic to remaining privileged udp ports
#
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p udp -i eth0 --dport 0:1023 -j DROP