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Why does my IPTables changes not deny access from all IP addresses except CloudFlare’s ranges?

Posted on August 8, 2020

Hi. I am running apache on ubuntu 18.04. I used IPtables to deny access from all IP addressed except CloudFlare’s ranges and when I run iptables -L –line-number I get

1 ACCEPT tcp – 131.0.72.0/22 anywhere multiport dports http,https 2 ACCEPT tcp – 172.64.0.0/13 anywhere multiport dports http,https 3 ACCEPT tcp – 104.16.0.0/12 anywhere multiport dports http,https 4 ACCEPT tcp – 162.158.0.0/15 anywhere multiport dports http,https 5 ACCEPT tcp – 198.41.128.0/17 anywhere multiport dports http,https 6 ACCEPT tcp – 197.234.240.0/22 anywhere multiport dports http,https 7 ACCEPT tcp – 188.114.96.0/20 anywhere multiport dports http,https 8 ACCEPT tcp – 190.93.240.0/20 anywhere multiport dports http,https 9 ACCEPT tcp – 108.162.192.0/18 anywhere multiport dports http,https 10 ACCEPT tcp – 141.101.64.0/18 anywhere multiport dports http,https 11 ACCEPT tcp – 103.31.4.0/22 anywhere multiport dports http,https 12 ACCEPT tcp – 103.22.200.0/22 anywhere multiport dports http,https 13 ACCEPT tcp – 103.21.244.0/22 anywhere multiport dports http,https 14 ACCEPT tcp – 173.245.48.0/20 anywhere multiport dports http,https 15 ufw-before-logging-input all – anywhere anywhere 16 ufw-before-input all – anywhere anywhere 17 ufw-after-input all – anywhere anywhere 18 ufw-after-logging-input all – anywhere anywhere 19 ufw-reject-input all – anywhere anywhere 20 ufw-track-input all – anywhere anywhere 21 DROP tcp – anywhere anywhere multiport dports http,https

The exact command I ran was:

sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports http,https -s 173.245.48.0/20 -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports http,https -s 103.21.244.0/22 -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports http,https -s 103.22.200.0/22 -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports http,https -s 103.31.4.0/22 -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports http,https -s 141.101.64.0/18 -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports http,https -s 108.162.192.0/18 -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports http,https -s 190.93.240.0/20 -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports http,https -s 188.114.96.0/20 -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports http,https -s 197.234.240.0/22 -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports http,https -s 198.41.128.0/17 -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports http,https -s 162.158.0.0/15 -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports http,https -s 104.16.0.0/12 -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports http,https -s 172.64.0.0/13 -j ACCEPT sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports http,https -s 131.0.72.0/22 -j ACCEPT

sudo iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m multiport --dports http,https -j DROP

Why am I still able to access the website from direct Digitalocean droplet IP address? Thanks



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