GUMS should be protected by a firewall to avoid DOS attacks since it is a key piece of the authentication and authorization process. Outside access should not be required anyway since it is an internal service.
We recommend either putting the GUMS server behind a firewall or running iptables configured to block GUMS port 8443. For example, for the fnal.gov domain, the iptables configuration should look something like:
*filter :INPUT ACCEPT [35:5488] :FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [22:1588] -A INPUT -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT # Accept all from within 131.225.0.0 -A INPUT -s 131.225.0.0/255.255.0.0 -j ACCEPT # Allow external access to httpd -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT # ... # drop everything else -A INPUT -j DROP COMMIT
Please customize the ip address/mask for your own site. Your iptables configuration file should be placed in /etc/sysconfig. Start iptables by executing 'service iptables start'.