Is it save to coonect FreeNas directly to the internet

[Lewis2002]

Hi,

I’m new with freenas. And before I want to use it I have two questions. I have searched on the forum and could find the answer.

My first question is it secure to connect freenas directly to the internet.

And my second question, is it possible to give only three ip numbers access to freenas and block any other ip address? So this other ip addresses don’t see anything of the freenas.


Thanks,

Lewis

 

[cyberjock]

Hi,

I’m new with freenas. And before I want to use it I have two questions. I have searched on the forum and could find the answer.

My first question is it secure to connect freenas directly to the internet.

And my second question, is it possible to give only three ip numbers access to freenas and block any other ip address? So this other ip addresses don’t see anything of the freenas.


Thanks,

Lewis

Not sure about the second one.. but would YOU connect a random computer to the internet with no firewall? I sure as heck hope not. You could hook it up and it could be okay for months or years. But I'd never do it unless I wanted to see how fast it got hacked into.

 

[Lewis2002]

Ok, thanks for your answer. Then I certainly need option 2. Does anyone know if it is possible to give only a few ip addresses access? Something like an internal firewall?

 

[cyberjock]

I'm thinking there isn't since you got no response before.

 

[JaimieV]

Ok, thanks for your answer. Then I certainly need option 2. Does anyone know if it is possible to give only a few ip addresses access? Something like an internal firewall?

Your firewall will probably be able to do this, most routers include that functionality. Look in your firewall setup for "services" and/or "port forwarding", set up a forward to the FreeNAS protocol you need to share, then set it to be only from certain allowed IP addresses.

If your firewall doesn't allow you to limit by addresses, your NAS shares will be available to the world, so don't do that.

 

[hervon]

To access FreeNAS when I was away from home, I enabled OpenVPN on my DDWRT supported router. This way I had a secure way to connect to my home network including FreeNAS. This feature has nothing to do with FreeNAS. As suggested by JaimieV, take a look @ your router options for secure access from WAN.

 

[cyberjock]

I don't think the OP has a router/firewall at all. His question asked if he could connect directly to the internet. /shrug

 

[Lewis2002]

Thanks for all the answers.

The idea was to buy a Virtual Private Server and install FreeNas on it to create a backup server on the internet where I can store backups with FTP and iSCSI. This Virtual Private Server is connected directly to the internet, so I don’t have any router or something else to manage access.

 

[JaimieV]

Hosted servers (virtual or otherwise!) will come with various options for connection to the 'Net, raw access is not a good plan at all.

You may find that other storage-only vendors offer better packages, eg Amazon cloud services, although I don't know of anyone who offers iSCSI.