No inbound traffic to external firewall interfaces in Azure and change to default NSG behaviour (2024)

Just wanted to share my experience with recent project and make you aware of the change in Azure default behaviour, which can save you some troubleshooting.

As you may now, earlier this year Azure introduced Standard SKU for Load Balancers and Public IP addresses. The standard SKU has better functionality and the recommendations is to use it in all new deployments.

I had a project to deploy firewalls in Azure with standard SKU external load balancers. Everything seemed fine for internal traffic and outbound traffic, however inbound Internet traffic was not working and I could not see any packets arriving on the external interfaces. In this project a third party company was responsible for the Azure configuration and they kept on claiming that the problem was with the firewall configuration and that nothing is blocking traffic in Azure because there were “no NSGs” applied.

After wasting almost a day in troubleshooting and after re-creating the issue in my own environment, I discovered that the NSG behaviour has changed in Standard SKU and even the Azure experts were not aware of that.

Previously not having an NSG meant “all traffic allowed”. Now in Standard SKU all inbound to the Standard SKU resources (Public IPs and Public Load Balancers) is blocked by default, unless explicitly allowed by a NSG. It is a small detail and is in fact mentioned in the Azure documentation, but it is easy to miss and being aware of it can save you valuable time troubleshooting.

“Communication with a standard SKU resource fails until you create and associate a network security group and explicitly allow the desired inbound traffic.”

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-ip-addresses-overview-arm

No inbound traffic to external firewall interfaces in Azure and change to default NSG behaviour (2024)

FAQs

What port is configured by default to allow all traffic through the NSG? ›

The AllowInternetOutbound default security rule in both NSG1 and NSG2 allows the traffic unless you create a security rule that denies port 80 outbound to the internet. If NSG2 denies port 80 in its security rule, it denies the traffic, and NSG1 never evaluates it.

What will you use to allow traffic to a specific Azure service in the NSG? ›

Unlike Azure Firewall, which monitors all traffic for workloads, NSG is commonly deployed for individual vNets, subnets, and network interfaces for virtual machines to refine traffic. It does so by activating a rule (allow or deny) or Access Control List (ACL), which allows or denies traffic to Azure resources.

What is the ability to restrict the inbound traffic to the Azure virtual networks? ›

You can use an Azure network security group to filter network traffic between Azure resources in an Azure virtual network. A network security group contains security rules that allow or deny inbound network traffic to, or outbound network traffic from, several types of Azure resources.

How does an Azure Firewall handle inbound and outbound network traffic? ›

Azure Firewall provides inbound protection for non-HTTP/S protocols (for example, RDP, SSH, FTP), outbound network-level protection for all ports and protocols, and application-level protection for outbound HTTP/S.

What are the default rules for NSG? ›

When initially deployed, a set of default rules is assigned to the NSG, allowing all incoming and outgoing traffic across the Azure Virtual Network and all outgoing traffic to the internet. Note that you cannot delete these rules, but you can set new rules with a higher priority to supersede them.

What happens if there is no NSG? ›

If a subnet has no security group associated to, all network traffic is allowed through it. You can filter network traffic between subnets using Network security groups.

How do I limit inbound traffic in Azure? ›

Inbound and outbound network traffic on a subnet is controlled using a network security group. To control inbound traffic, create network security rules in a network security group. Then assign the network security group the subnet containing the App Service Environment.

What should you use to prevent traffic from an Azure virtual network? ›

You can use a network security group to filter inbound and outbound network traffic to and from Azure resources in an Azure virtual network. Network security groups contain security rules that filter network traffic by IP address, port, and protocol.

How do I allow Internet traffic through Azure firewall? ›

To allow your server in the subnet to access the internet through the Azure Firewall, you need to configure a network rule on the Azure Firewall. In the Azure Firewall settings, go to Rules and then select Network rule collection. Click on Add network rule collection.

How do I know if my Azure firewall is blocking traffic? ›

In the Azure portal, open your firewall resource group and select the firewall. Under Monitoring, select Diagnostic settings. For Azure Firewall, three service-specific legacy logs are available: Azure Firewall Application Rule (Legacy Azure Diagnostics)

What are the three types of rules in an Azure firewall? ›

You can configure NAT rules, network rules, and applications rules on Azure Firewall using either classic rules or Firewall Policy.

Does Azure block outbound traffic? ›

Secure outbound addresses with a firewall that can control outbound traffic based on FQDNs. Azure Firewall restricts outbound traffic based on the FQDN of the destination or FQDN tags.

What is the default port for SolarWinds agent? ›

Agents connect to port 17778 on the SolarWinds Platform server or Additional Polling Engine by default.

What is the default port for Netcat? ›

If the port number is omitted, Ncat uses its default port 31337. Typically only privileged (root) users may bind to a port number lower than 1024. A listening TCP server normally accepts only one connection and will exit after the client disconnects.

What port does Apache traffic server use by default? ›

Clients may be configured to use the default 8080 port on your Traffic Server host as a proxy.

What is the default port for SSH traffic? ›

The default SSH port is 22.

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