RE: [vps-mail] Packet filter

["John Oligario" <joligario@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just said to heck with it, and blocked the ip address' or the ip address
range, (if the company who own's the ip address block is in China, Korea,
etc) via the httpd.conf file, and then informed my customers of the ip
address range being blocked.  If they have clients in that ip range (I also
tell them what country the range is from ) then they let me know if they
need to contact anyone from there.  Most of them are from colleges, etc so
it is not worth it for me to allow them access.

John Oligario 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Godwin Stewart
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 11:47 AM
To: vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vps-mail] Packet filter

Hi,

Does the virtual environment in which the VPS2 runs have any impact on the
FreeBSD packet filter?

There are plenty of bozos out there with trojanned machines trying to gain
root access to my VPS2s via SSH and LARTing them doesn't seem to have much
(any?) effect. The only way to put an end to this is to firewall the cretins
out.

I'm fairly fluent with the concept of Linux iptables, so I'm not exactly a
beginner in that respect. What I need to do is look at the specifics of pf
and I should be home and dry. However, if the virtual environment of the
VPS2 doesn't allow me to do this then there's no point in me reading up on
anything.

-- 
G. Stewart   --   gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx -- gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx
Registered Linux user #284683 (Slackware 9.0, Linux 2.6.8.1-em8300)
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