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Create Inbound Rules
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Create Inbound Rules

Owned by Shirly Tsang
Jul 12, 2024
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Next, we’ll create a firewall rule to allow appropriate traffic inbound to the VPC for the vNIOS instances. For full details on ports and protocols used by Infoblox NIOS, refer to NIOS documentation at https://docs.infoblox.com. 

  1. Click ADD RULE.

  2. Set the Priority.

  3. Set the Direction of traffic to Ingress and Action on match to Allow.

  1. Expand the Target Type menu and select All instances in the network.

  2. Expand the IP type menu and select IPv4.

  3. For the Source IP ranges, enter 0.0.0.0/0 to allow traffic from anywhere.

Note: For security of production environments, limit the source IP ranges.

  1. Toggle the Protocols and ports option to Specified protocols and ports.

  2. Check the boxes for tcp and udp.

  3. Enter the following ports:

    • TCP: 22, 53, 443

    • UDP: 53, 1194, 2114

  4. Click CREATE.

  1. Review the rules you created as well as those automatically created for you.

  2. Click CONTINUE.

  1. Click ASSOCIATE.

  1. Select the VPC(s) to associate this policy with.

  2. Click ASSOCIATE.

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