Problem with iptabels firewall rules for INPUT while Tor traffic on lubuntu 22.04 LTS

i do have lubuntu 22.04 LTS and TOR daemon with the torrc config

VirtualAddrNetwork 10.192.0.0/10
AutomapHostsOnResolve 1
TransPort 9040
DNSPort 9053

and iptables rules

#exclude locals
TOR_EXCLUDE="192.168.0.0/16 172.16.0.0/12 10.0.0.0/8"

#tor uid
TOR_UID="debian-tor"

#tor socks port
TOR_PORT="9040"

#tor dns port
TOR_DNS="9053"


iptables -F
iptables -X
iptables -t nat -F


iptables -P INPUT DROP
iptables -P OUTPUT DROP
iptables -P FORWARD DROP


#set iptables nat
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner $TOR_UID -j RETURN
#set dns redirect
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p udp --dport 53 -j REDIRECT --to-ports $TOR_DNS
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 53 -j REDIRECT --to-ports $TOR_DNS
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p udp -m owner --uid-owner $TOR_UID -m udp --dport 53 -j REDIRECT --to-ports $TOR_DNS


#exclude locals
for NET in $TOR_EXCLUDE 127.0.0.0/9 127.128.0.0/10; do
  iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -d $NET -j RETURN
  iptables -A OUTPUT -d "$NET" -j ACCEPT
done

for NET in $TOR_EXCLUDE 127.0.0.0/8; do
iptables -A OUTPUT -d $NET -j ACCEPT
done


# redirect all other output through tor
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp --syn -j REDIRECT --to-ports $TOR_PORT
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p udp -j REDIRECT --to-ports $TOR_PORT
iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p icmp -j REDIRECT --to-ports $TOR_PORT


# allow only tor output
iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner $TOR_UID -j ACCEPT


# accept already established connections
iptables -A OUTPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
#iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT                                 
#iptables -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

so the problem is with the last 2 rules

#iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
#iptables -A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT

none of the rules work so the input traffic cannot be accepted, thats was found by changing the default INPUT rule from DROP to ACCEPT everything, that is insecure

cant really understand the problem and the solution

and also the #exclude locals part makes me confuse with those 2 conditions

thanks

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