Re: [gentoo-security] If your interested

[Brian Micek]

On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 15:20 +1000, Ben Anderson wrote:

> It may make sense for small, limited users machines, but what about
> servers that are intentionally advertising ssh for it's users globally,
> so can't use port knocking, can't block all of korea (as some users
> definatly connect from there) and so on...
>

Ben, your correct ... it would be silly to block China on a commercial
server doing business with China.  Those machines probably require a
secure architecture most of us light-weight users cant support.  

> Seems to me blocking large chunks of the net because they're a pain is a
> short term solution that's going to cause long term pain for the
> internet at large if it's allowed to become standard practice...

Once again, censorship is silly but it works.  There is something ironic
about censoring a country that censors their Internet.

>
> Shouldn't this list focus on the general, base level security rather
> than specific work-arounds for these type of issues that don't apply to
> a lot of boxen?
>
> 2c out.
> Ben
>
>
>
>
> Dave Strydom wrote:
> > I think there is an easier way of doing this...
> >
> > Why not use the GEOIP IPTABLES patch and then just use this in your
> > firewall:
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp -m geoip --src-cc CN -j DROP
> > $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp -m geoip --src-cc KR -j DROP
> > $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp -m geoip --src-cc TW -j DROP
> > $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp -m geoip --src-cc HK -j DROP
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > This way you have 4 simple rules which do the work of that entire script.
> >
> >
> > On 10/10/05, *Taka John Brunkhorst* <antiwmac@×××××.com
> > <mailto:antiwmac@×××××.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     nice but why do we need to block them?
> >     ssh worms? or just lamers?
> >
> >     --
> >     antiwmac@×××××.com <mailto:antiwmac@×××××.com>
> >     Taka John Brunkhorst
> >
> >