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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Hercules@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

Hey,

Im using openwrt with banip to only allow certain countries to access my services. Im not familiair with banip and im having issues finding documentation about it so thats why i came here.

I need to allow a certain path to allow cert-manager to get me new certificates using http challanges. If im not mistaking i have to allow the path: .well-known/acme-challenge/*.

Is their an option to allow this from any country but block all other requests?

My current config is as following:

root@OpenWrt:~# uci show | grep ban
banip.global=banip
banip.global.ban_enabled='0'
banip.global.ban_debug='0'
banip.global.ban_autodetect='1'
banip.global.ban_allowlistonly='1'
banip.global.ban_fetchcmd='curl'
banip.global.ban_protov4='1'
banip.global.ban_ifv4='wan'
banip.global.ban_protov6='1'
banip.global.ban_ifv6='wan6'
banip.global.ban_dev='eth0'
banip.global.ban_fetchretry='5'
banip.global.ban_nicelimit='0'
banip.global.ban_filelimit='1024'
banip.global.ban_deduplicate='1'
banip.global.ban_nftpriority='-100'
banip.global.ban_icmplimit='25'
banip.global.ban_synlimit='10'
banip.global.ban_udplimit='100'
banip.global.ban_nftpolicy='memory'
banip.global.ban_nftretry='5'
banip.global.ban_blockpolicy='drop'
banip.global.ban_nftloglevel='warn'
banip.global.ban_logprerouting='0'
banip.global.ban_loginbound='1'
banip.global.ban_logoutbound='0'
banip.global.ban_loglimit='100'
banip.global.ban_autoallowlist='1'
banip.global.ban_autoallowuplink='subnet'
banip.global.ban_autoblocklist='1'
banip.global.ban_country='us'
banip.global.ban_logterm='Exit before auth from' 'luci: failed login' 'error: maximum authentication attempts exceeded' 'received a suspicious remote IP .*'
banip.global.ban_vlanallow='br-lan'
banip.global.ban_allowurl='https://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/data/aggregated/be-aggregated.zone' 'https://www.ipdeny.com/ipv6/ipaddresses/aggregated/be-aggregated.zone'
banip.global.ban_geoip='1'
banip.global.geoip_src='dbip'
banip.global.geoip_mode='allowlist'
banip.global.ban_feeds='country:US' 'country:US' 'geoip:US'
banip.global.ban_all='1'
banip.global.allow_country='US'
banip.global.ban_feedin='country'
banip.global.ban_feed='hagezi' 'tor' 'vpn'
wireless.radio0.band='2g'
wireless.radio1.band='5g'

Thanks for your time and have a great day!

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[-] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 months ago

The path is part of the http protocol. Most firewalls only parse the first couple layers (ethernet->ip->tcp/udp), not http as well, unless they do deep package inspection. Idk if openwrt/banip has functionality like that.

It might be easier (and more performant if the firewall has weak hardware) to just allow tcp port 80 and let your reverse proxy do the filtering for that, since it (usually) needs to parse the http anyways.

[-] Hercules@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

path is part of the http protocol. Most firewalls only parse the first couple layers (ethernet->ip->tcp/udp), not http as well, unless they do deep package inspection. Idk if openwrt/banip has functionality

I don't think openwrt can do this. Im running k3s with nginx as ingress but the issue is it doesn't see the actual ip but rather the ip of the container so i can't use nginx to block countries.

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