Ticket #5339 (closed Feature Requests: invalid)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 6 months ago

Please include basic firewall configuration in FreePBX Distro, maybe a firewall configuration module?

Reported by: michigantelephone Assigned to: tonyclewis
Priority: minor Milestone: Undetermined
Component: FreePBX Distro Version: 2.9-branch
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Description

Seems to me like the FreePBX Distro should ship with a basic iptables firewall configuration that by default only allows sufficient access to allow initial configuration. Might be worth opening a forum thread to ask what should be permitted and what should be locked out at the initial install, but I don't think that having essentially no firewall configuration at all is really a good thing.

The other question is, should FreePBX actually contain some kind of Firewall configuration module that would have checkboxes or "radio buttons" to allow various types of access from outside the local network (individually selectable by service type)? So you could, for example, allow SIP and IAX access from offsite, but deny SSH, etc. Or is that better left to something like Webmin? Just a thought.

Change History

08/24/11 15:37:20 changed by michigantelephone

Sorry, meant to make this a Feature Request, please change it since I cannot.

08/24/11 15:40:43 changed by mickecarlsson

  • type changed from Bugs to Feature Requests.

09/17/11 21:36:00 changed by mbrevda

  • milestone changed from 2.10 to Undetermined.

11/14/12 18:01:33 changed by tonyclewis

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to invalid.

We will not be adding firewall support as people should be using a hardware firewall and I do not want to encourage users not to have a firewall.