UFW: Blocking outgoing connections

Note: This is known to work for a machine acting as masquerading firewall for an entire network. I wanted to block connections to certain outbound ports. After some trial and errors I found something that works Add the following to /etc/ufw/before.rules: -A ufw-before-forward -s <SOURCE IP> ! -d <LOCAL NET>/24 -p tcp -m tcp --dport <DEST PORT> -j DROP it’s as simple as that. Remember to reload all the rules:...

January 24, 2010 · 1 min · alj

AT&T Global Network Client on Ubuntu article updated

It’s been a while since I last looked at my AT&T Global Network Client on Ubuntu article (primarily because I never actually used the article when I worked at IBM). Anyway, at some point AT&T reorganized their FTP server, breaking the download link – The rest of the article is still valid....

December 23, 2009 · 1 min · alj