[HamWAN PSDR] Firewall Changes for HamWAN

[Bart Kus]

As an update, the inbound filtering was turned off since it caused 
problems.  We're looking into doing things differently now.

Also, I would re-phrase "If you want to be able to reach a service" to 
just "let us know what firewall rules you'd like for your subnet/IP".  
If you want to define ranges of ports and stuff, that's fine.  Work is 
on-going to automate this too, so you won't need to reach out to puny 
humans.

--Bart


On 4/24/2014 10:14 PM, Nigel Vander Houwen wrote:
> Hello All!
>
> Tonight myself and the other admins have spent some time working on improving the firewall implemented at our edge routers to help improve security and compliance, and I installed them on both edges a short time ago.
>
> We are now at this point implementing a default block of traffic coming in from the internet at large, unless specifically exempted.
>
> What does this mean for you?
> 1. For most things, you should not notice this change at all. Anything you request from your hamwan connection should work fine as the response will be related to your connection.
> 2. If you want to be able to reach a service you have on your hamwan connection from the internet at large, please let myself or another admin know, and we can add that to the known exceptions. This is a temporary state until we can get a web interface for managing your HamWAN DNS and firewall rules.
> 3. If you do notice any problems, please reach out to us. The best is via the #hamwan channel on irc.freenode.net, but email will work as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Nigel
> K7NVH
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