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Firewall Rules

 Firewall Rules

 

Apply a firewall rule to your application.

Go to app engine

Click on Firewall rules

A DoS firewall rule can be used to protect devices from denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by controlling traffic and applying DoS protection profiles:

  • Deny: Blocks traffic that matches the rule

  • Allow: Permits traffic that matches the rule

  • Protect: Applies a DoS protection profile to traffic that matches the rule


Creating App Engine firewall rules 

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In App Engine, you can create a firewall with up to 1000 prioritized individual rules that either allow or restrict a range of IP addresses and subnets. Your app will only respond to requests that are allowed by the firewall.

To learn how the App Engine firewall works, see Understanding firewalls.

Before you begin

Before you can create App Engine firewall rules for your app, you must have one of the

following App Engine IAM roles, which include the necessary privileges for creating or modifying firewall rules:

  • App Engine Admin

  • Editor

  • Owner

Creating firewall rules

Use one of the following methods to create a firewall rule. Repeat these steps for each additional rule:

Console

gcloud

API

Use the Firewall rules page in Google Cloud console to create a firewall rule:

  1. Go to the Create a firewall rule page in Google Cloud console:
    Go to the Create a firewall rule page

  2. Specify the details of the firewall rule:

    1. In Priority, enter an integer to specify the relative importance of

    2. the rule and define the order of when the rule is evaluated.
      Valid values are 1 to 2147483646. Priority 1 is the first rule evaluated.

    3. Priority 2147483647 is the last rule evaluated and is reserved for the

    4. `default` rule.
      Important: After a rule is created, you cannot edit the priority value.

    5. You must delete and then recreate a rule to change the value of a

    6. rule's priority.

    7. In Action on match, specify whether to allow or deny access for

    8. requests that match the rule. Rules set to allow forward the request

    9. to the app. Rules set to deny respond to requests with a

    10. 403 Forbidden error.

    11. In IP range, define the range of IP addresses that apply to the rule.

    12. The IP address range must be defined in CIDR notation, can include

    13. subnet masks, and support both IPv4 and IPv6.

    14. Optional: In Description, include a description of the rule that is

    15. no longer than 100 characters.

  3. Click Save to create the rule.

  4. Test the rule to ensure that the priority and action provide the expected

  5. behavior:

    1. Click Test IP address.

    2. Enter the IP address that you want to validate and then click

    3. Test to ensure that the corresponding rule gets correctly evaluated.

Understanding App Engine firewall rules

An App Engine firewall consists of an ordered list of rules that can allow or

deny access from the specified IP address or range to your app.

The rule applies to all resources of the App Engine application.

Firewall rule priority

The firewall rules are ordered by importance, which you define as a numerical

value in each rule's priority. You must specify a unique priority value for each rule as

it defines the importance relative to the other rules in the firewall.

The values for a rule's priority scale from the most important value of 1 up

to the least important at value 2147483647.

Each firewall includes a default rule that is automatically created with the

2147483647 priority and applies to the entire IP range of your app.

The default rule is always evaluated after all the other rules in the

firewall and applied to all requests across all IP addresses.

The firewall evaluates the highest priority rule first. All the remaining rules in

the firewall are sequentially evaluated until a rule matches the IP range of that request.

When a matching rule is found, the connection is either allowed or denied, and all the

remaining rules in the firewall are then skipped. If none of the manually defined rules

in the firewall match the request, the default rule is evaluated.

For example, if you create a rule with priority 1 it is always evaluated first.

If an incoming request matches the rule with priority 1, only that rule

is evaluated and all the other rules in the firewall are skipped, including the default rule.

The example firewall below shows how a rule's priority can change the behavior of your firewall.

Note: If you set up port forwarding, remember that all requests through that forwarded port bypass the App Engine firewall.

Example firewall

In this example, a company has set up a firewall to grant access

to the engineering team and internal corporate network to their in-development app.

The firewall rules have been created with large gaps between each priority

to allow for growth.

Priority

Action

IP range

Description

1000

Deny

192.0.2.1

Denies access to a DoS attacker.

2000

Allow

198.51.100.2

Allows access to an engineer in the satellite

office.

3000

Deny

198.51.100.0/24

Denies access to all non-engineering buildings.

5000

Allow

203.0.113.0/24

Allows access to the main building's network.

2147483647

Deny

*

Default Action

After the firewall is created, assume that the following requests are directed at the

sample app and note the app's response:

  • Request from 198.51.100.2 matches rule with priority 2000 and is allowed.

  • Request from 198.51.100.100 matches rule with priority 3000 and gets

  • denied.

  • Request from 203.0.113.54 matches rule with priority 5000 and is allowed.

  • Request from 45.123.35.242 matches the default rule and gets denied.

Resolving conflicting rules

For example, assume that two of the priorities in the company's firewall are swapped. If the rules for priorities 2000 and 3000 are swapped, notice the unintended behavior.

Priority

Action

IP range

Description

1000

Deny

192.0.2.1

Denies access to a DoS attacker.

2000

Deny

198.51.100.0/24

Denies access to all non-engineering buildings.

3000

Allow

198.51.100.2

Allows access to an engineer in the satellite office.

5000

Allow

203.0.113.0/24

Allows access to the main building's network.

2147483647

Deny

*

Default Action

The engineer in the satellite office will not be able to access the company's app as the

rule's new priority means it will never be evaluated.

The engineer's IP address 198.51.100.2 matches the rule that denies

all non-engineers in the range 198.51.100.0/24 before the rule that allows access

to the engineer's IP address.

To fix this, you must set the priority of the rule that allows access to

198.51.100.2 to be higher than the rule that denies access for the

IP range 198.51.100.0/24.

Create rule

A DoS firewall rule can be used to protect devices from denial-of-service (DoS)

attacks by controlling traffic and applying DoS protection profiles:

  • Deny: Blocks traffic that matches the rule

  • Allow: Permits traffic that matches the rule

  • Protect: Applies a DoS protection profile to traffic that matches the rule

The command or statement "deny 192.0.2.1" is typically used in network security or

firewall configurations. It specifies that traffic from or to the IP address 192.0.2.1 should be denied or blocked. This action can be configured in firewall rules, access control

lists (ACLs), or other security policies.

  • Context: It could appear in settings for routers, switches, or firewalls to

  • prevent communication with a specific device or network resource.

  • 192.0.2.1: This IP address belongs to the "TEST-NET-1" block, which is

  • reserved for documentation and examples (according to RFC 5737). It is not typically used in live networks.

So in real-world applications, a different IP would be used, but in examples, "deny 192.0.2.1" might illustrate how to deny access to a particular IP address.

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