IP Filter
LogScale includes an IP-based access control list (ACL) for outgoing connections made by actions. This is to protect LogScale from being used to proxy requests into the same internal network as LogScale. It also protects against actions being used, for example, to send requests to ZooKeeper.
By default, this denies connections to any reserved IP address as defined by RFC 5735 and RFC 5156. This includes the standard ranges for internal networks. That means that, by default, LogScale won't be able to send messages from actions to other services on the same internal network.
The syntax of the ACL list is a sequence, separated by newlines or
;, of
allow or
deny actions, along with a CIDR
block or all. An IP address is
allowed or denied by finding the first match and applying the
corresponding action. The all value
matches any IP-address (i.e., IPv4 or IPv6).
Default ACL
If there is no match in the ACL list specified in the configuration
parameter IP_FILTER_ACTIONS, the default ACL list will be
applied. If that has no match either, the connection is allowed.
The default IP-based access control list (ACL) is as follows:
# From https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5735
deny 0.0.0.0/8
deny 10.0.0.0/8
deny 127.0.0.0/8
deny 169.254.0.0/16
deny 172.16.0.0/12
deny 192.0.0.0/24
deny 192.0.2.0/24
deny 192.88.99.0/24
deny 192.168.0.0/16
deny 198.18.0.0/15
deny 198.51.100.0/24
deny 203.0.113.0/24
deny 224.0.0.0/4
deny 240.0.0.0/4
deny 255.255.255.255/32
# From https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5156
deny ::/128
deny ::1/128
deny fe80::/10
deny fc00::/7
deny ff00::/8
To get the previous behavior of allowing all IP addresses in actions,
for example, you would set
IP_FILTER_ACTIONS ini the
configuration file like so:
IP_FILTER_ACTIONS="allow all"
To allow only a particular IP address, say
192.168.0.16, but still keep other
internal addresses blocked, you would change the configuration file to
include something like this:
IP_FILTER_ACTIONS="allow 192.168.0.16"
If you want to allow only the IP address,
192.168.0.16 and block all other
IP addresses, you would set the IP_FILTER_ACTIONS variable in
configuration file like this:
IP_FILTER_ACTIONS="allow 192.168.0.16; deny all"