
Originally Posted by
vinzenz
Further, the webinterface seems to need access to this port even in single server setups, so I had to allow traffic for the loopback interface.
Hi vinzenz,
AFAIK, there's no need to access to that port in a single server enviroment... If you have experienced some issue when you are blocking it, please let us know.

Originally Posted by
vinzenz
Just in case there is anybody else like me not too familiar with iptables, this is how I solved it:
-A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 8735 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
-A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 8735 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
A single line like this will be suffice:
Code:
-A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8735 -j REJECT
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