Stop China from connecting to my Google Compute Engine server

Question

My company has a Google Compute Engine server hosted in North America. We get so many Chinese IP addresses sending requests to port 11 that it is costing us money for the ingress. Our firewall blocks all connections to China already as they have no business having access to our applications.

Is there a way to completely ignore these connections or have them blocked in such a way that they will not eat up bandwidth?

That's going to be on Google, if they want to support that. You can't control anything on the other side of your ingress ports. — Hyppy, May 28 '15 at 16:40
I block all traffic to port 11 using the firewall. is there another way? — josh123a123, May 28 '15 at 16:51
Nothing Yeesh here. They count all traffic incoming to the virtual server. They do not care what the virtual server does then. SImple,and standard. — TomTom, May 28 '15 at 18:23
@TomTom According to https://cloud.google.com/compute/pricing#network ingress traffic is free. As long as the port is closed there shouldn't be any egress to charge. — ceejayoz, May 28 '15 at 21:03
@josh123a123 did you manage to lower those costs? I'm having the same prblem — dietbacon, Oct 26 '15 at 02:26

score 8 · Answer 1 · edited May 30 '15 at 06:15

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There is no charge for the Google Compute Engine ingress traffic. Take a look at GCE network pricing. If you've been charged for the ingress traffic, you can contact the Cloud billing team to clarify and fix the charge.

Regarding the requests to port 11, as far as this port is blocked in your GCE network's firewall your VM instances should be safe and the requests should not eat up the bandwidth.

I'm curious to know the way in which you monitor these requests.

edited May 30 '15 at 06:15

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answered May 28 '15 at 21:00

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I looked at the bill again and the charge is for egress. I was rejecting the traffic which was where the outgoing bandwidth was getting eaten up. – josh123a123 May 29 '15 at 14:25
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Note that there is no REJECT mode/choice for GCE Firewall. The network checks for a firewall rule that permits a connection to the target: if so, it sends it on; if not, it simply drops the packet without informing the sender. For more information you can check out "Who Handles What" part of this article: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/networking#networkingdetails – Kamran May 29 '15 at 14:51

Brian · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-28T21:54:58.010

Firewalls have two main choices when receiving unwanted connection attempts.

REJECT - send a response saying the port/service/etc is closed or
unavailable
DROP - don't respond and just drop the packets

The words REJECT/DROP aren't standard or used across all firewalls but the difference between the concepts behind the two possible actions will be there. You want to do the equivalent of DROP so there is no outbound traffic. As mentioned by others inbound traffic incurs no charges.

forresthopkinsa · Answer 3 · 2021-04-23T01:03:07.697

Here are the cloud shell commands to add the firewall rules:

gcloud compute firewall-rules create no-china-1 --description="Blocking these Chinese bots that want to rack up my network charges" --direction=INGRESS --priority=100 --network=default --action=DENY --rules=all --source-ranges=1.24.0.0/13,1.48.0.0/15,1.50.0.0/16,1.56.0.0/13,1.68.0.0/14,1.80.0.0/13,1.92.0.0/14,1.180.0.0/14,1.188.0.0/14,1.192.0.0/13,1.202.0.0/15,1.204.0.0/14,14.16.0.0/12,14.104.0.0/13,14.112.0.0/12,14.134.0.0/15,14.144.0.0/12,14.204.0.0/15,14.208.0.0/12,23.80.54.0/24,23.104.141.0/24,23.105.14.0/24,23.226.208.0/24,27.8.0.0/13,27.16.0.0/12,27.36.0.0/14,27.40.0.0/13,27.50.128.0/17,27.54.192.0/18,27.106.128.0/18,27.115.0.0/17,27.148.0.0/14,27.152.0.0/13,27.184.0.0/13,27.192.0.0/11,27.224.0.0/14,36.1.0.0/16,36.4.0.0/14,36.26.0.0/16,36.32.0.0/14,36.36.0.0/16,36.40.0.0/13,36.48.0.0/15,36.56.0.0/13,36.96.0.0/11,36.128.0.0/11,36.248.0.0/14,39.64.0.0/11,39.96.0.0/13,39.128.0.0/10,42.4.0.0/14,42.48.0.0/15,42.52.0.0/14,42.56.0.0/14,42.84.0.0/14,42.88.0.0/13,42.96.128.0/17,42.100.0.0/14,42.120.0.0/14,42.156.0.0/16,42.176.0.0/13,42.185.0.0/16,42.202.0.0/15,42.224.0.0/12,42.242.0.0/15,42.248.0.0/15,43.255.0.0/20,43.255.16.0/22,43.255.48.0/22,43.255.60.0/22,43.255.64.0/20,43.255.96.0/20,43.255.144.0/22,43.255.168.0/22,43.255.176.0/22,43.255.184.0/22,43.255.192.0/22,43.255.200.0/21,43.255.208.0/21,43.255.224.0/21,43.255.232.0/22,43.255.244.0/22,47.74.0.0/15,47.76.0.0/14,47.80.0.0/13,47.88.0.0/14,47.92.0.0/14,49.5.0.0/16,49.64.0.0/11,49.112.0.0/13,54.222.0.0/15,58.16.0.0/14,58.20.0.0/16,58.21.0.0/16,58.22.0.0/15,58.34.0.0/16,58.37.0.0/16,58.38.0.0/16,58.40.0.0/16,58.42.0.0/16,58.44.0.0/14,58.48.0.0/13,58.56.0.0/14,58.60.0.0/14,58.68.128.0/17,58.82.0.0/15,58.100.0.0/15,58.116.0.0/14,58.128.0.0/13,58.208.0.0/12,58.240.0.0/13,58.248.0.0/13,59.32.0.0/12,59.48.0.0/14,59.52.0.0/14,59.56.0.0/13,59.72.0.0/16,59.108.0.0/15,59.172.0.0/14,60.0.0.0/12,60.11.0.0/16,60.12.0.0/14,60.16.0.0/13,60.24.0.0/13,60.160.0.0/11,60.194.0.0/15,60.205.0.0/16,60.208.0.0/12,60.253.128.0/17,61.4.64.0/20,61.4.80.0/22,61.4.176.0/20,61.48.0.0/13,61.128.0.0/10,61.135.0.0/16,61.136.0.0/18,61.139.0.0/16,61.145.73.208/28,61.147.0.0/16,61.150.0.0/16,61.152.0.0/16,61.154.0.0/16,61.158.0.0/16,61.160.0.0/16,61.162.0.0/15,61.164.0.0/16,61.172.0.0/15,61.175.0.0/16,61.177.0.0/16,61.179.0.0/16,61.183.0.0/16,61.184.0.0/16,61.185.219.232/29,61.187.0.0/16,61.188.0.0/16,61.232.0.0/14,61.236.0.0/15,61.240.0.0/14,94.191.0.0/17

gcloud compute firewall-rules create no-china-2 --description=https://www.wizcrafts.net/chinese-blocklist.html --direction=INGRESS --priority=100 --network=default --action=DENY --rules=all --source-ranges=101.16.0.0/12,101.37.0.0/16,101.64.0.0/13,101.72.0.0/14,101.76.0.0/15,101.80.0.0/12,101.132.0.0/15,101.200.0.0/15,101.224.0.0/13,101.248.0.0/15,101.254.0.0/16,103.211.164.0/22,103.253.4.0/22,106.4.0.0/14,106.8.0.0/15,106.12.0.0/14,106.16.0.0/12,106.32.0.0/12,106.43.0.0/16,106.56.0.0/13,106.74.0.0/15,106.80.0.0/12,106.108.0.0/14,106.112.0.0/13,106.120.0.0/13,110.6.0.0/15,110.16.0.0/14,110.51.0.0/16,110.52.0.0/15,110.80.0.0/13,110.88.0.0/14,110.96.0.0/11,110.152.0.0/14,110.156.0.0/15,110.166.0.0/15,110.173.0.0/19,110.173.32.0/20,110.173.64.0/18,110.176.0.0/14,110.184.0.0/13,110.192.0.0/11,110.228.0.0/14,110.240.0.0/12,111.0.0.0/10,111.72.0.0/13,111.85.0.0/16,111.112.0.0/15,111.120.0.0/14,111.124.0.0/16,111.126.0.0/15,111.128.0.0/11,111.160.0.0/13,111.172.0.0/14,111.176.0.0/13,111.192.0.0/12,111.224.0.0/14,111.228.0.0/14,112.0.0.0/10,112.64.0.0/14,112.73.0.0/16,112.74.0.0/16,112.80.0.0/12,112.98.0.0/15,112.100.0.0/14,112.109.128.0/17,112.111.0.0/16,112.112.0.0/14,112.116.0.0/15,112.122.0.0/15,112.192.0.0/14,112.224.0.0/11,113.0.0.0/13,113.8.0.0/15,113.12.0.0/14,113.16.0.0/15,113.18.0.0/16,113.54.0.0/15,113.56.0.0/15,113.58.0.0/16,113.59.0.0/17,113.62.0.0/15,113.64.0.0/10,113.120.0.0/13,113.128.0.0/15,113.132.0.0/14,113.136.0.0/13,113.194.0.0/15,113.200.0.0/15,113.204.0.0/14,113.218.0.0/15,113.220.0.0/14,113.224.0.0/12,113.240.0.0/13,113.248.0.0/14,114.28.0.0/16,114.54.0.0/15,114.64.0.0/14,114.80.0.0/12,114.96.0.0/13,114.104.0.0/14,114.112.0.0/14,114.135.0.0/16,114.138.0.0/15,114.215.0.0/16,114.216.0.0/13,114.224.0.0/11,115.24.0.0/15,115.28.0.0/15,115.32.0.0/14,115.48.0.0/12,115.84.0.0/18,115.100.0.0/14,115.148.0.0/14,115.152.0.0/15,115.159.0.0/16,115.166.64.0/19,115.168.0.0/14,115.192.0.0/11,115.224.0.0/12,116.1.0.0/16,116.2.0.0/15,116.4.0.0/14,116.8.0.0/14,116.16.0.0/12,116.52.0.0/14,116.56.0.0/15,116.60.0.0/14,116.76.0.0/15,116.85.0.0/16,116.90.80.0/20,116.95.0.0/16,116.112.0.0/14,116.116.0.0/15,116.128.0.0/10,116.204.0.0/15,116.207.0.0/16,116.208.0.0/14,116.213.64.0/18,116.213.128.0/17,116.224.0.0/12,116.248.0.0/15,116.252.0.0/15,116.254.128.0/18,117.8.0.0/13,117.21.0.0/16,117.22.0.0/15,117.24.0.0/13,117.32.0.0/13,117.40.0.0/14,117.44.0.0/15,117.50.0.0/16,117.51.0.0/16,117.57.0.0/16,117.60.0.0/14,117.64.0.0/13,117.79.224.0/20,117.80.0.0/12,117.106.0.0/15,117.112.0.0/13,117.128.0.0/10,118.24.0.0/15,118.26.0.0/16,118.72.0.0/13,118.80.0.0/15,118.89.0.0/16,118.112.0.0/13,118.120.0.0/14,118.124.0.0/15,118.132.0.0/14,118.144.0.0/14,118.180.0.0/14,118.186.0.0/15,118.192.0.0/15,118.194.0.0/16,118.213.0.0/16,118.244.0.0/16,118.248.0.0/13,119.0.0.0/13,119.8.0.0/16,119.10.0.0/17,119.18.192.0/20,119.23.0.0/16,119.28.0.0/15,119.32.0.0/14,119.36.0.0/16,119.39.0.0/16,119.44.0.0/16,119.48.0.0/13,119.57.0.0/16,119.60.0.0/15,119.62.0.0/16,119.84.0.0/14,119.88.0.0/14,119.96.0.0/13,119.108.0.0/15,119.112.0.0/13,119.120.0.0/13,119.128.0.0/12,119.144.0.0/14,119.162.0.0/15,119.164.0.0/14,119.176.0.0/12,119.233.0.0/16,119.248.0.0/14,120.0.0.0/12,120.24.0.0/14,120.30.0.0/15

gcloud compute firewall-rules create no-china-3 --description="2 and 3 are both made up of line 2 in the source rules" --direction=INGRESS --priority=100 --network=default --action=DENY --rules=all --source-ranges=120.32.0.0/13,120.40.0.0/14,120.68.0.0/14,120.76.0.0/14,120.80.0.0/13,120.92.0.0/16,120.192.0.0/10,121.0.16.0/20,121.4.0.0/15,121.8.0.0/13,121.16.0.0/12,121.32.0.0/14,121.40.0.0/14,121.52.208.0/20,121.52.224.0/19,121.56.0.0/15,121.60.0.0/14,121.68.0.0/14,121.76.0.0/15,121.100.128.0/17,121.196.0.0/14,121.201.0.0/16,121.204.0.0/14,121.224.0.0/12,122.4.0.0/14,122.8.0.0/16,122.10.128.0/17,122.51.128.0/17,122.64.0.0/11,122.96.0.0/15,122.119.0.0/16,122.136.0.0/13,122.156.0.0/14,122.188.0.0/14,122.192.0.0/14,122.198.0.0/16,122.200.64.0/18,122.224.0.0/12,122.240.0.0/13,123.4.0.0/14,123.8.0.0/13,123.52.0.0/14,123.56.0.0/14,123.64.0.0/11,123.97.128.0/17,123.100.0.0/19,123.112.0.0/12,123.128.0.0/13,123.138.0.0/15,123.144.0.0/14,123.148.0.0/15,123.150.0.0/15,123.152.0.0/13,123.160.0.0/14,123.164.0.0/14,123.172.0.0/15,123.178.0.0/15,123.180.0.0/14,123.184.0.0/13,123.196.0.0/15,123.206.0.0/15,123.232.0.0/14,123.244.0.0/14,123.249.0.0/16,124.42.0.0/16,124.64.0.0/15,124.66.0.0/17,124.67.0.0/16,124.72.0.0/13,124.88.0.0/15,124.92.0.0/14,124.112.0.0/15,124.114.0.0/15,124.117.0.0/16,124.118.0.0/15,124.126.0.0/15,124.128.0.0/13,124.152.0.0/16,124.160.0.0/13,124.192.0.0/15,124.200.0.0/13,124.224.0.0/16,124.226.0.0/15,124.228.0.0/14,124.234.0.0/15,124.236.0.0/14,124.240.0.0/17,124.240.128.0/18,124.248.0.0/17,125.32.0.0/14,125.36.0.0/14,125.40.0.0/13,125.64.0.0/12,125.79.0.0/16,125.80.0.0/13,125.88.0.0/13,125.104.0.0/13,125.112.0.0/12,125.210.0.0/15,125.216.0.0/13,132.232.0.0/16,134.175.0.0/16,139.129.0.0/16,139.170.0.0/16,139.189.0.0/16,139.199.0.0/16,139.206.0.0/16,139.208.0.0/13,139.217.0.0/16,139.224.0.0/16,139.226.0.0/15,140.143.0.0/16,140.206.0.0/15,140.224.0.0/16,140.237.0.0/16,140.240.0.0/16,140.246.0.0/16,140.249.0.0/16,140.255.0.0/16,142.4.117.0/30,144.0.0.0/16,144.12.0.0/16,144.52.0.0/16,144.123.0.0/16,144.255.0.0/16,150.109.0.0/16,150.138.0.0/15,150.242.152.0/21,150.242.160.0/21,150.242.168.0/22,153.0.0.0/16,153.99.0.0/16,159.226.0.0/16,162.209.168.0/24,171.8.0.0/13,171.34.0.0/15,171.36.0.0/14,171.40.0.0/13,171.80.0.0/14,171.88.0.0/13,171.104.0.0/13,171.112.0.0/14,171.116.0.0/14,171.120.0.0/13,171.208.0.0/12,175.0.0.0/12,175.16.0.0/13,175.24.0.0/14,175.30.0.0/15,175.42.0.0/15,175.44.0.0/16,175.46.0.0/15,175.48.0.0/12,175.64.0.0/11,175.102.0.0/16,175.106.128.0/17,175.146.0.0/15,175.148.0.0/14,175.152.0.0/14,175.160.0.0/12,175.178.0.0/16,175.184.128.0/18,175.185.0.0/16,175.186.0.0/15,175.188.0.0/14,180.76.0.0/16,180.95.128.0/17,180.96.0.0/11,180.136.0.0/13,180.152.0.0/13,180.160.0.0/12,180.208.0.0/15,180.212.0.0/15,182.18.0.0/17,182.32.0.0/12,182.50.112.0/20,182.61.0.0/16,182.84.0.0/14,182.88.0.0/14,182.96.0.0/12,182.112.0.0/12,182.128.0.0/12,182.144.0.0/13,182.200.0.0/13,182.240.0.0/13,183.0.0.0/10,183.64.0.0/13,183.92.0.0/14,183.128.0.0/11,183.160.0.0/12,183.184.0.0/13,183.192.0.0/10,192.34.109.224/28,198.2.203.64/28,198.2.212.160/28,198.15.171.64/26

gcloud compute firewall-rules create no-china-4 --description="rule 4 is line 3 in source file, as of 2019-09-18" --direction=INGRESS --priority=100 --network=default --action=DENY --rules=all --source-ranges=202.43.144.0/22,202.46.32.0/19,202.65.96.0/20,202.66.0.0/16,202.75.208.0/20,202.96.0.0/12,202.111.160.0/19,202.112.0.0/14,202.117.0.0/16,202.127.112.0/20,202.165.176.0/20,202.196.80.0/20,203.69.0.0/16,203.81.16.0/20,203.86.0.0/18,203.86.64.0/19,203.93.0.0/16,203.169.160.0/19,203.171.224.0/20,203.195.160.0/23,210.5.0.0/19,210.12.0.0/16,210.14.128.0/19,210.21.0.0/16,210.22.0.0/16,210.32.0.0/14,210.51.0.0/16,210.52.0.0/15,210.75.0.0/16,210.77.0.0/16,210.79.64.0/18,210.192.96.0/19,211.76.96.0/20,211.78.208.0/20,211.80.0.0/13,211.86.144.0/20,211.90.0.0/15,211.92.0.0/14,211.96.0.0/13,211.136.0.0/13,211.144.0.0/12,211.160.0.0/13,211.233.70.0/24,212.64.0.0/17,218.0.0.0/11,218.56.0.0/13,218.64.0.0/11,218.84.0.0/14,218.88.0.0/13,218.96.0.0/14,218.102.0.0/16,218.104.0.0/14,218.108.0.0/15,218.194.80.0/20,218.200.0.0/13,218.240.0.0/13,218.249.0.0/16,219.128.0.0/11,219.154.0.0/15,219.223.192.0/18,219.232.0.0/16,219.234.80.0/20,219.235.0.0/16,219.238.0.0/15,220.112.0.0/16,220.154.0.0/15,220.160.0.0/11,220.181.0.0/16,220.191.0.0/16,220.192.0.0/12,220.228.70.0/24,220.242.0.0/15,220.248.0.0/14,220.250.0.0/19,220.252.0.0/16,221.0.0.0/12,221.122.0.0/15,221.130.0.0/15,221.136.0.0/15,221.172.0.0/14,221.176.0.0/13,221.192.0.0/14,221.196.0.0/15,221.198.0.0/16,221.199.0.0/17,221.200.0.0/14,221.204.0.0/15,221.206.0.0/16,221.207.0.0/16,221.208.0.0/12,221.212.0.0/15,221.214.0.0/15,221.216.0.0/13,221.224.0.0/13,221.228.0.0/14,221.232.0.0/13,222.32.0.0/11,222.64.0.0/12,222.80.0.0/12,222.128.0.0/14,222.132.0.0/14,222.136.0.0/13,222.160.0.0/14,222.168.0.0/13,222.172.222.0/24,222.176.0.0/13,222.184.0.0/13,222.200.0.0/16,222.208.0.0/13,222.216.0.0/14,222.220.0.0/15,222.222.0.0/15,222.240.0.0/13,222.249.0.0/16,223.4.0.0/14,223.8.0.0/13,223.64.0.0/11,223.96.0.0/12,223.112.0.0/14,223.144.0.0/12,223.198.0.0/15,223.214.0.0/15,223.223.176.0/20,223.223.192.0/20,223.255.0.0/17,223.240.0.0/13

Don't forget to supply your GCP project to these commands, either with the --project flag on each or by using gcloud config set project beforehand.

It has to be split between multiple rules because GCP limits you to 256 IP ranges per firewall rule. IP range source here.

Stop China from connecting to my Google Compute Engine server

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