RE: [Xen-users] latest GPLPV drivers 0.10.0.86 and microsoft.com

["Nick Couchman" <Nick.Couchman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, firewalling the dom0 *can* impact domUs, depending on how you do it.  You can put firewall rules onto a physical interface that affect all of the traffic that goes through that interface, whether the destination is the dom0 or not.  In fact, if you put iptables rules in place on your dom0 that limit access from outside to port 22 on the dom0 IP, that is going to eliminate all traffic except the traffic destined for dom0.  You need to construct your rules in such a way as to make sure traffic can flow between dom0 and outside and domUs and outside.

-Nick

>>> On 2009/09/08 at 08:22, "Ian Tobin" <itobin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But firewalling Dom 0 doesn't affect the VMs? 

And also if you did that you might not want to block certain ports as it
could be different on every VM.

BTW what is the best way of firewalling a Dom 0 built from the lenny
debs?

Thanks

Ian



-----Original Message-----
From: James Harper [mailto:james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 08 September 2009 14:03
To: Ian Tobin; Fajar A. Nugraha
Cc: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] latest GPLPV drivers 0.10.0.86 and
microsoft.com

>
> In the end this turned out to be some worm getting onto the VPS before
> we had chance to enable the firewall so now we are building the images
> offline, enabling the firewall and putting them on the net.
>
> Very strange how quickly it got infected but lessons learned.
>
> Big thanks for James and Fajar for the advice.
>
> On another note we cant put a perimeter firewall in place as the
servers
> are on the internet in the datacenter.
>

You could firewall in Dom0 though.

Here (http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=7093&rss) is another good
reason why you should firewall early and firewall often :)

James

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