Firewall - How to open a port in Linux
Colleagues hello to all.
In today's article, we will talk about how to open a port in Linux on the Firewall. If anyone does not know, then Firewall is software built into the Linux operating system to control access to applications by filtering traffic on network interfaces. By default Firewall is always on and I don't recommend turning it off, especially in a productive environment.
Today we will open port 1521, this port is used to connect to the oracle database.
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Article content:
- Check if port 1521 is open.
- Open the port.
- Checking the result.
STEP 1. Check if port 1521 is open.
The first step we need to make sure that port 1521 is actually closed on Firewall, for this let's see all the rules that are written in Firewall.
$. firewall-cmd --list-all
As you can see, our list does not contain any information on port 1521, which means that it is closed.
STEP 2. Open the port.
In order to open port 1521, we need to use the command:
$. sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=1521/tcp --permanent
If the result is success, then everything is fine.
The main thing is not to forget after adding the rule, restart the Firewall service itself, to do this, run the command:
$. sudo firewall-cmd --reload
If the result is success, then everything is fine.
STEP 3. Checking the result.
After adding the rule to the Firewall, we now need to make sure everything was successfully applied, for this we will use the command to view all rules in Firewall back.
$. firewall-cmd --list-all
As you can see, as a result, in the ports field, we have data on the open port 1521/tcp
Thank you all, I hope that my article helped you in some way.
