[Gluster-users] Firewall ports with v 3.5.2 grumble time

Joe Julian joe at julianfamily.org
Thu Oct 30 19:21:48 UTC 2014


https://github.com/gluster/glusterfs/blob/master/doc/admin-guide/en-US/markdown/admin_settingup_clients.md#installing-on-red-hat-package-manager-rpm-distributions
(also restated again under " Installing on Debian-based Distributions")

Any thoughts on what would make this any easier to find?

On 10/30/2014 11:21 AM, Todd Stansell wrote:
> This is because in 3.4, they changed the brick port range.  It's mentioned
> on
> https://forge.gluster.org/gluster-docs-project/pages/GlusterFS_34_Release_No
> tes:
>
>    "Brick ports will now listen from 49152 onwards (instead of 24009 onwards
> as with previous releases). The brick port assignment scheme is now
> compliant with IANA guidelines."
>
> Sadly, documentation for gluster is very difficult to find what you need, in
> my experience.
>
> Todd
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org
> [mailto:gluster-users-bounces at gluster.org] On Behalf Of Osborne, Paul
> (paul.osborne at canterbury.ac.uk)
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 6:59 AM
> To: gluster-users at gluster.org
> Subject: [Gluster-users] Firewall ports with v 3.5.2 grumble time
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a requirement to run my gluster hosts within a firewalled section of
> network and where the consumer hosts are in a different segment due to IP
> address preservation, part of our security policy requires that we run local
> firewalls on every host so I have to get the network access locked down
> appropriately.
>
> I am running 3.5.2 using the packages provided in the Gluster package
> repository as my Linux distribution only includes packages for 3.2 which
> seems somewhat ancient.
>
> Following the documentation here:
> http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Basic_Gluster_Troub
> leshooting
>
> I opened up the relevant ports:
>
> 34865 - 34867  for gluster
> 111 for the portmapper
> 24009 - 24012 as I am using 2 bricks
>
> This though contradicts:
>
> http://gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Gluster_3.2:_Installing
> _GlusterFS_on_Red_Hat_Package_Manager_(RPM)_Distributions
>
> Which says:
>
> "Ensure that TCP ports 111, 24007,24008, 24009-(24009 + number of bricks
> across all volumes) are open on all Gluster servers. If you will be using
> NFS, open additional ports 38465 to 38467"
>
> What has not been helpful is that there was no mention of port: 2049 for NFS
> over TCP - which would have been helpful and probably my own mistake as I
> should have known.
>
> To really confuse matters I noticed that the bricks were not syncing anyway,
> and a look at the logs reveals:
>
> /var/log/glusterfs/glfsheal-www.log:[2014-10-30 07:39:48.428286] I
> [client-handshake.c:1462:client_setvolume_cbk] 0-www-client-1: Connected to
> 111.222.333.444:49154, attached to remote volume '/srv/hod/lampe-www'.
>
> along with other entries that show that I also actually need ports:  49154
> and 49155 open.
>
> even gluster volume status reveals some of the ports:
>
> gluster> volume status
> Status of volume: www
> Gluster process                                         Port    Online  Pid
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> Brick 194.82.210.140:/srv/hod/lampe-www                 49154   Y       3035
> Brick 194.82.210.130:/srv/hod/lampe-www                 49155   Y
> 16160
> NFS Server on localhost                                 2049    Y
> 16062
> Self-heal Daemon on localhost                           N/A     Y
> 16072
> NFS Server on gfse-isr-01                               2049    Y       3040
> Self-heal Daemon on gfse-isr-01                         N/A     Y       3045
>   
> Task Status of Volume www
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> There are no active volume tasks
>
>
> So my query here is, if the bricks are actually using 49154 & 49155 (which
> they appear to be) why is this not mentioned in the documentation and are
> there any other ports that I should be aware of?
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul
> --
>
> Paul Osborne
> Senior Systems Engineer
> Infrastructure Services
> IT Department
> Canterbury Christ Church University
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