My firewall is blocking network connections from the docker container to outside

Question

For me this is a very standard setup, I had a ubuntu machine running docker and ufw as my firewall.

If my firewall is enable the docker instances is unable to connect to outside

$ docker run -i -t ubuntu /bin/bash
WARNING:  Docker detected local DNS server on resolv.conf. Using default external servers: [8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4]
root@d300c5f17207:/# apt-get update
Err http://archive.ubuntu.com precise InRelease
0% [Connecting to archive.ubuntu.com]
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/InRelease  
W: Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/Release.gpg  Temporary failure resolving 'archive.ubuntu.com'
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Here is the ufw log showing the blocked connections from the docker container.

$ sudo tail /var/log/ufw.log
Jun 30 15:41:56 localhost kernel: [61609.503199] [UFW BLOCK] IN=testbr0 OUT=eth0 PHYSIN=veth8Rj8Nh MAC=fe:ff:ed:42:b0:01:0a:7c:42:7c:a6:72:08:00 SRC=172.16.42.2 DST=8.8.8.8 LEN=64 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=63 ID=14886 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=60192 DPT=53 LEN=44 
Jun 30 15:42:01 localhost kernel: [61614.500867] [UFW BLOCK] IN=testbr0 OUT=eth0 PHYSIN=veth8Rj8Nh MAC=fe:ff:ed:42:b0:01:0a:7c:42:7c:a6:72:08:00 SRC=172.16.42.2 DST=8.8.4.4 LEN=64 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=63 ID=16137 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=44812 DPT=53 LEN=44 
Jun 30 15:42:06 localhost kernel: [61619.498516] [UFW BLOCK] IN=testbr0 OUT=eth0 PHYSIN=veth8Rj8Nh MAC=fe:ff:ed:42:b0:01:0a:7c:42:7c:a6:72:08:00 SRC=172.16.42.2 DST=8.8.8.8 LEN=64 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=63 ID=14887 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=60192 DPT=53 LEN=44

I had try adding a rule using the ip.

$ sudo ufw allow in from 172.16.42.2
$ sudo ufw allow out from 172.16.42.2

And have no change is still blocked.

How can I esily allow all connections from the container to outside with a ufw rule?

Answer 1

This fixed it for me:

 ufw allow in on docker0

Answer 2

Edit /etc/ufw/before.rules as follows:

In the *filter section, after the first block of required lines, add:

# docker rules to enable external network access from the container
# forward traffic accross the bridge 
-A ufw-before-forward -i docker0 -j ACCEPT
-A ufw-before-forward -i testbr0 -j ACCEPT
-A ufw-before-forward -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

At the end of the file, after the line that says COMMIT, add the following section:

*nat
:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [0:0]
-A POSTROUTING -s 172.16.42.0/8 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
# don't delete the 'COMMIT' line or these rules won't be processed
COMMIT

After saving the file, restart ufw with sudo ufw disable && sudo ufw enable