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Show detailed ufw status and default policies

harmless rootFirewalldebian, ubuntu
root@server
ufw status verbose

Shows whether ufw is active, which logging level is set and which default policy (deny, allow, reject) applies to incoming, outgoing and routed traffic. The rules follow below. Useful for quickly checking whether a server rejects all incoming traffic by default.

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Allow a port only from a specific IP with ufw

#ufw allow from 198.51.100.0/24 to any port 22 proto tcp
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Block an IP address or subnet with ufw

#ufw insert 1 deny from 203.0.113.0/24
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Close a port in ufw by deleting its rule

#ufw delete allow 8080/tcp
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Count IP addresses blocked by ufw

#journalctl -k --since "today" --no-pager | grep 'UFW BLOCK' | grep -o 'SRC=[^ ]*' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20
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Delete a ufw rule by number

#ufw delete 3
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Enable ufw logging

#ufw logging low
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