Allowing cPanel updates with port 80 blocked

[freedominternet]

Hi!

After some not so nice Pharma hacks on a customer's site, we were advised to block port 80 in the CSF firewall. The downside to this is that it affects automatic updates from cPanel and other sources. To counter this we were told to white list the IP addresses needed for the updates but we have been unable to locate these.

Is anyone able to shed more light on this?

The error messages we get when attempting to automatically update are:
Running `/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/updatenow --upcp --log=/var/cpanel/updatelogs/update.1421063461.log` failed, exited with code 29 (signal = 0)

There is also an email for updatenow basically telling us the update failed.

Fantastico also gave an error (see below) but it tells us the IP address so we were able to add this to the firewall.

- Removed -
Connecting to 174.120.165.106:80... failed: Connection timed out.
Giving up.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

There are several update mirrors that you will need to whitelist. You can run a command such as "host httpupdate.cpanel.net" to see these IP addresses.

Thank you.

 

[quizknows]

You should be able to close TCP port 80 inbound in csf conf but allow it outbound.