Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:02:13 +0530 From: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com> To: pelle@spd.nu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding network & IP to hosts.deny Message-ID: <b2807d0404101102327d362ce2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAArvdSa/sjb0OI1eLKLXuK1sKAAAAQAAAAnNdJfVuVREajW0jiKTPoYAEAAAAA@spd.nu> References: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAArvdSa/sjb0OI1eLKLXuK1sKAAAAQAAAAnNdJfVuVREajW0jiKTPoYAEAAAAA@spd.nu>
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The firewall would be definitely a better bet than host.deny. If you are using ipfw you can simply add a couple of deny rules like: ipfw add 100 deny all from 192.168.100.0/24 to me in Regards S. On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 08:46:40 +0200, Pelle Andersson <pelle@spd.nu> wrote: > > Hi! > > I have a lot of login attempts from various networks and IP addresses > on my FBSD 4.10 server. I have read the man pages for hosts.deny but > do not understand how to add networks and IP addresses to it. > > Let's say I want to block the network address 192.168.100.0 and/or > the IP address 192.168.135.77. > > What I understand is when using hosts.deny, I stopping them totally > from using any networking services, right? > > Would it be better to let the built-in firewall (/etc/rc.firewall) > to stopping them? I have the firewall activated and have changed > the port for example SSH to a higher one. > > Could someone please provide me with some examples on either using > hosts.deny or the default firewall? > > A big thanks in advance, > Best Regards Pelle > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Subhro Sankha Kar School of Information Technology Block AQ-13/1 Sector V ZIP 700091 India
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