Hi,
I am trying to open port 53589 to start a taskwarrior server.
I did this:
sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 53589 -j ACCEPT
and this:
sudo ufw allow 53589/tcp
I start the server, but it does not seem to work.
I tried to connect via telnet to test the port, but still nothing
telnet my.domain 53589
when I try to connect to port 80 or 22 it works
I am on Ubuntu 15.04
Doesn’t work is not a helpful statement. What did you do, what was the expected result, and what did you see instead? Was there an error? Be specific!
I had a similar issue on a 14.04 droplet last week. The problem ended up being that the new ALLOW iptables rule was being run after the DROP input rule. I did the following:
iptables-save > iptables_rules.txt
Edit iptables_rules.txt and find this line:
-A INPUT -j DROP
Add your rule right above it:
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 53589 -j ACCEPT
Make sure that you remove it from later in the file. Save the file and reload your iptables rules:
iptables-restore < iptables_rules.txt
For good measure I like to do a service iptables restart
I hope that helps!
so, very sorry, but the “problem” was at our internal firewall at the office.
I asked the system administrator, and he was like “of course it is it is closed”.
thank you for the answers tho.
For the record, the command you gave is the correct one for both
iptablesandufw, if we ignore previously existing rules.