I have a private subnet in VNet 1 with Network Security Group only allowing inbound traffic from a specific private IP CIDR. This subnet hosts Azure Database for PostgreSQL with a server name.
I also have a public subnet in a different VNet (VNet2) that hosts a standard VM.
I have done VNet peering to connect the two and they don't overlap the address spaces. I have also whitelisted the Private IP of the VM (in VNet2) in the NSG of Private subnet in VNet 1 but I cannot ping the PostgreSQL DB from my VM. It says:
ping: mydb-dev.postgres.database.azure.com: Name or service not known
Both VNets are in same subscription and same region
Things to be notice.
You can't ping directly with server name ping mydb-dev.postgres.database.azure.com. Because this domain/server name is not registered in any public or private DNS Zone. If you want to ping with Server name your domain should be registered in DNS record.
Another more imortant things is you need to open port default PostgreSQL port is 5432 at both the Vnet for inbound and outbound level.
you are able to ping when your deploying both the resource in one VNEt.So By default, there is no security boundary between subnets for a VNet, so VMs in each of these subnets can talk to one another.
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I'm trying to set up a Tailscale node as a relay to my AWS VPC. I've followed the instructions here to the letter, multiple times. Unfortunately, I just cannot seem to ssh to the second (non-Tailscale) instance. My process, briefly:
Set up an AWS VPC with the VPC wizard
create an instance tailscale-relay on the VPC, on the public subnet, with SSH enabled, and my private key. Assign it a new Security Group called sg-tailscale-relay
ssh to tailscale-relay, install tailscale
enable IP forwarding (per docs here)
sudo tailscale up --advertise-routes=10.0.0.0/24, where 10.0.0.0/24 is the range specified in the private subnet (and equivalently in the public subnet, see photo at bottom)
disable key expiry and authorize subnet routes for this node in the Tailscale console
close off ssh access to tailscale-relay in its Security Group, then verify that I can ssh to it with it's Tailscale IP (annoyingly, still requiring my .pem key)
create another instance, test-tailscale, assign it to the same VPC but to the private subnet. Do NOT give it a public IP. Allow all inbound traffic from the sg-tailscale-relay subnet, but not from anywhere else
Then, from my local machine, SSH to the private IP of test-tailscale times out.
I can ping test-tailscale from tailscale-relay (but not tailscale ping, obviously)
What gives? I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.
Bonus: Can I ssh without the private key?
private subnet route table
One possibility is in the non-AWS Tailscale node which you're using to send the ping, if it is a Linux system. Linux was the first client developed, and the one most often used as a subnet router itself.
All of the other clients accept subnet routes by default, but Linux by default does not and needs tailscale up --accept-routes=true to be specified.
Following this tutorial, I set up an Aurora PostgreSQL database. I then tried to access the database from my computer using pgAdmin. However, pgAdmin gives the error: "Unable to connect to server: timeout expired"
I have tried the following things:
Ensured that the database is set to be publicly accessible
Verified that the database has an IP address (I ran nslookup on my local machine, and it returned a public IP address).
Verified that the database is in a public subnet (it is launched in two subnets, one of which is a public subnet with an Elastic IP address and one of which is a private subnet which directs traffic to a NAT gateway)
Ensured that my database is configured to use port 5432
Modified the security group to add inbound rules allowing TCP traffic on port 5432 from any IPv4 or IPv6 address
Ensured that I can send outbound traffic on port 5432 from my computer using this site
It looks like you have deployed the Aurora DB cluster into two subnets of a VPC and the problem is that one subnet is public, while the other is private. I suspect the DB will be accessible publicly as long as the public DNS resolves to the DB instance in the public subnet, but will be unreachable when it resolves to the instance in the private subnet (though I have not verified this).
To correct this and make the cluster publicly accessible, deploy the DB into public subnets only.
I created the public subnet and private subnet ,Internet gateway associated the public subnet. Now the webserver was provisioned or installed in private subnet but how do we access any content from private subnet ,why was the server installed. in the lecture ? Also, say for example if I install mysql db in private , how do i access the db from outside? in other words how do i access the webserver/db running in private subnet from public or http?
If you want to access your private subnet from outside of the VPC you need to add a bastion host to the public subnet. The bastion host should have a security group which only allows connections from the IP of your personal machine (if this is where your accessing from). And the security group of the insurance in the private subnet should allow traffic from the bastion host's security group. (The private subnet NACL, allows all by default).
If your trying to access the private subnet from within the VPC. Then you don't need to configure anything by default. As the private subnet NACL by default allows all local traffic. (Security groups by default deny all traffic, so ensure the dB instance, if in a security group, allows traffic from the public subnet, ideally limiting to the specific protocol).
You can access to your private subnet in ssh or rdp by using a bastion host which you have to install to your public subnet. But you have to configure well your security groups and your NACL.
For internet access of your private subnet, you have to install a NAT Gateway in your public subnet (for example for your db)
For more information, this is an interesting link for you:
https://cloudacademy.com/blog/aws-bastion-host-nat-instances-vpc-peering-security/
Hope it will help
I'm trying to access a private RDS Instance from a different VPC using a Peering Connection. I have two VPCs:
VPC-K8S (172.20.0.0/16) with one public subnet
VPC-RDS (172.17.0.0/16) with one public subnet (172.17.0.0/24) and 3 private subnets (172.17.{1,2,3}.0/24)
VPC-RDS has 2 security groups (not actual names):
default, which accepts SSH from my IP
db, which accepts TCP over port 5432 from the default security group.
I deploy my DB instances in VPC-RDS after creating a DB Subnet Group in the private subnets, and configure it to not be publicly accessible. To access it from my workstation, I create a small instance in the public subnet of VPC-RDS with the default security group, and create an SSH tunnel:
ssh -L 5432:rds-host-name.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com:5432 -i "KeyName.pem" ec2-user#ec2-host-name.compute-1.amazonaws.com
I can access the RDS from my workstation via localhost.
I want to be able to access my RDS instance from my Kubernetes cluster (VPC-K8S). I set up a peering connection between the two, and configure the route tables appropriately (in VPC-K8S: 172.17.0.0/16 -> pcx-112233; VPC-RDS: 172.20.0.0/16 -> pcx-112233)
I cannot connect to RDS from one of my K8S nodes, or any instance in the K8S VPC. I suspected that it had something to do with the db security group, but even when I opened port 5432 to all IPs (0.0.0.0/0) it didn't help.
Any ideas how to do this, or is this only possible via a publicly accessible RDS instance or a Bastion host that is in VPC-RDS and the default SG?
Stupid oversight, but I'll leave this up if it helps anyone.
My private subnets in VPC-RDS use a different route table than the public subnet. This is done so that internet addresses (for the catch all rule 0.0.0.0/0) point to the NAT gateway as opposed to the internet gateway in the public subnet.
I added a rule to the private subnets' route table for the peering connection (172.20.0.0/16 -> pcx-112233), and then configured the db security group to accept TCP traffic on port 5432 from 172.20.0.0/16.
I have to run a program on an EC2 that reads the host's public IP address from config (which I don't appear to be able to easily change), and then connects to it, i.e. it's looping back to the instance via the public IP address.
I can't find out how to create a security group that can loopback to the the EC2 instance. My rules are:
outbound: 0.0.0.0/0 all tcp
inbound: [private IP/32, 127.0.0.1/32, public IP/32] all tcp 4440 (the port I need)
None of the inbound IPs work. I'm testing this by telnetting on the host to the public IP: telnet x.x.x.x 4440, and I'm never able to (where x.x.x.x is my public IP). I can do it by specifying 127.0.0.1 though, so the server I'm connecting to is online and bound correctly. I can also access the server through my browser. I just can't loopback. The connection hangs, which is why I think it's a security group issue.
How can I allow this program - which tries to connect to the public IP from the instance - to connect to the same instance by its public IP address?
I just did a test (using ICMP rule) , you have to add a rule in the security group as you said. you should add it normally, and set the source to 1.2.3.4/32 (following your example). please note that I am using Elastic IP in my tests.
According to the docs, it should also be possible to list that security group as its own source. This would permit the loopback even if the IP address changes due to a stop/start.
Another security group. This allows instances associated with the specified security group to access instances associated with this security group. This does not add rules from the source security group to this security group. You can specify one of the following security groups:
The current security group
A different security group for the same VPC
A different security group for a peer VPC in a VPC peering connection