From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 19 12:19:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.lee.net (trinity.lee.net [208.229.121.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6348B37B4EC for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:19:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from journalstar.com (leepcD-096.sub-d.lee.net [208.205.127.96]) by trinity.lee.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA06804; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:19:40 -0600 Message-ID: <3A917FBE.231235CB@journalstar.com> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:19:10 -0600 From: Tony Wells X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gerald T. Freymann" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Blocking access to a machine References: <013001c09aad$71024dd0$0f10a7d1@phantom> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You could use the /etc/hosts.allow file if you start ftpd from inetd.conf. Otherwise you'll need a packet filter like IPFirewall or IPFilter. "Gerald T. Freymann" wrote: > > Here's a question.. > > Running FreeBSD 4.2-Release. I've noticed in our /var/log/messages file a > number of repeated attempts at anonymous FTP (like 100 in very very rapid > succession). > > I email abuse@domain with the info and hope they culprit gets hit over the > wrist with a ruler. > > Is there a way to block access by that person? > > For instance... > > pD4B88246.dip.t-dialin.net > > tried to Anon FTP in a hundred times. Is there a something I can do on that > FreeBSD machine to say completely ignore any further requests from > pD4B88246.dip.t-dialin.net? > > -Gerry > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message