NAME

       blrules - shorewall Blacklist file

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/shorewall[6]/blrules

DESCRIPTION

       This file is used to perform blacklisting and whitelisting.

       Rules in this file are applied depending on the setting of BLACKLIST in
       shorewall.conf[1](5).

       The format of rules in this file is the same as the format of rules in shorewall-rules
       (5)[2]. The difference in the two files lies in the ACTION (first) column.

       ACTION-
       {ACCEPT|BLACKLIST|blacklog|CONTINUE|DROP|A_DROP|REJECT|A_REJECT|WHITELIST|LOG|QUEUE|NFQUEUE[(queuenumber)]|[?]COMMENT|action|macro[(target)]}[:{log-level|none}[!][:tag]]
           Specifies the action to be taken if the packet matches the rule. Must be one of the
           following.

           BLACKLIST
               Added in Shorewall 4.5.3. This is actually a macro that expands as follows:

               •   If BLACKLIST_LOGLEVEL is specified in shorewall.conf[1](5), then the macro
                   expands to blacklog.

               •   Otherwise it expands to the action specified for BLACKLIST_DISPOSITION in
                   shorewall.conf[1](5).

           blacklog
               May only be used if BLACKLIST_LOGLEVEL is specified in shorewall.conf[1](5). Logs,
               audits (if specified) and applies the BLACKLIST_DISPOSITION specified in
               shorewall.conf[1] (5).

           ACCEPT|CONTINUE|WHITELIST
               Exempt the packet from the remaining rules in this file.

           DROP
               Ignore the packet.

           A_DROP
               Audited version of DROP. Requires AUDIT_TARGET support in the kernel and
               ip6tables.

           REJECT
               disallow the packet and return an icmp-unreachable or an RST packet.

           A_REJECT
               Audited versions of REJECT. Require AUDIT_TARGET support in the kernel and
               ip6tables.

           LOG
               Simply log the packet and continue with the next rule.

           QUEUE
               Queue the packet to a user-space application such as ftwall
               (http://p2pwall.sf.net). The application may reinsert the packet for further
               processing.

           NFLOG[(nflog-parameters)]
               queues matching packets to a back end logging daemon via a netlink socket then
               continues to the next rule. See shorewall-logging(5)[3].

           NFQUEUE
               Queues the packet to a user-space application using the nfnetlink_queue mechanism.
               If a queuenumber is not specified, queue zero (0) is assumed.

           ?COMMENT
               The rest of the line will be attached as a comment to the Netfilter rule(s)
               generated by the following entries. The comment will appear delimited by "/* ...
               */" in the output of "shorewall show <chain>". To stop the comment from being
               attached to further rules, simply include ?COMMENT on a line by itself.

           action
               The name of an action declared in shorewall-actions[4](5) or in
               /usr/share/shorewall/actions.std.

           macro
               The name of a macro defined in a file named macro.macro. If the macro accepts an
               action parameter (Look at the macro source to see if it has PARAM in the TARGET
               column) then the macro name is followed by the parenthesized target (ACCEPT, DROP,
               REJECT, ...) to be substituted for the parameter.

               Example: FTP(ACCEPT).

           The ACTION may optionally be followed by ":" and a syslog log level (e.g, REJECT:info
           or Web(ACCEPT):debug). This causes the packet to be logged at the specified level.

           If the ACTION names an action declared in shorewall-actions[4](5) or in
           /usr/share/shorewall/actions.std then:

           •   If the log level is followed by "!' then all rules in the action are logged at the
               log level.

           •   If the log level is not followed by "!" then only those rules in the action that
               do not specify logging are logged at the specified level.

           •   The special log level none!  suppresses logging by the action.

           You may also specify NFLOG (must be in upper case) as a log level.This will log to the
           NFLOG target for routing to a separate log through use of ulogd
           (shorewall-logging.htm[3]).

           Actions specifying logging may be followed by a log tag (a string of alphanumeric
           characters) which is appended to the string generated by the LOGPREFIX (in
           shorewall.conf[1](5)).

       For the remaining columns, see shorewall-rules (5)[2].

EXAMPLES

       IPv4 Example 1:
           Drop Teredo packets from the net.

               DROP          net:[2001::/32]            all

       IPv4 Example 2:
           Don't subject packets from 2001:DB8::/64 to the remaining rules in the file.

               WHITELIST     net:[2001:DB8::/64]        all

       IPv6 Example 1:
           Drop Teredo packets from the net.

               DROP          net:[2001::/32]            all

       IPv6 Example 2:
           Don't subject packets from 2001:DB8::/64 to the remaining rules in the file.

               WHITELIST     net:[2001:DB8::/64]        all

FILES

       /etc/shorewall/blrules

       /etc/shorewall6/blrules

SEE ALSO

       http://www.shorewall.net/blacklisting_support.htm[5]

       http://www.shorewall.net/configuration_file_basics.htm#Pairs[6]

       shorewall(8)

NOTES

        1. shorewall.conf
           http://www.shorewall.net/manpages/shorewall.conf.html

        2. shorewall-rules (5)
           http://www.shorewall.net/manpages/shorewall-rules.html

        3. shorewall-logging(5)
           http://www.shorewall.netshorewall-logging.html

        4. shorewall-actions
           http://www.shorewall.net/manpages/shorewall-actions.html

        5. http://www.shorewall.net/blacklisting_support.htm
           http://www.shorewall.net/blacklisting_support.htm

        6. http://www.shorewall.net/configuration_file_basics.htm#Pairs
           http://www.shorewall.net/configuration_file_basics.htm#Pairs