Re: [vps-mail] Packet filter

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:07:41 -0400, "John Oligario" <joligario@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I blocked the ip address from accessing the server, the httpd.conf file is
> not blocking ssh, it just blocks the ip address from being able to do
> anything other than attempting to break in, and then the ip address is
> denied. 

Nope.

All you're doing is giving special treatment to inbound port 80 connections
from those IP addresses. You're not *blocking* anything, least of all their
access to port 22 (SSH). The whole point of firewalling them out is so that
they don't even see the services running on your machine.

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