On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
It is my understanding that EC2 images generally have their inbuilt
firewalls turned off because people are expected to use security
groups instead. Is this correct? If so, how can I help that happen
for the next Fedora release's EC2 images?
For what it's worth, on the Amazon Linux AMI 2011.09, iptables is turned
on by default, but it is left empty.
[root@ip-10-190-217-157 ~]# chkconfig --list | grep iptables
iptables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
[root@ip-10-190-217-157 ~]# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination