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On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 15:20 +1000, Ben Anderson wrote: |
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> It may make sense for small, limited users machines, but what about |
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> servers that are intentionally advertising ssh for it's users globally, |
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> so can't use port knocking, can't block all of korea (as some users |
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> definatly connect from there) and so on... |
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Ben, your correct ... it would be silly to block China on a commercial |
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server doing business with China. Those machines probably require a |
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secure architecture most of us light-weight users cant support. |
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> Seems to me blocking large chunks of the net because they're a pain is a |
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> short term solution that's going to cause long term pain for the |
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> internet at large if it's allowed to become standard practice... |
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Once again, censorship is silly but it works. There is something ironic |
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about censoring a country that censors their Internet. |
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> Shouldn't this list focus on the general, base level security rather |
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> than specific work-arounds for these type of issues that don't apply to |
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> a lot of boxen? |
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> 2c out. |
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> Ben |
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> Dave Strydom wrote: |
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> > I think there is an easier way of doing this... |
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> > Why not use the GEOIP IPTABLES patch and then just use this in your |
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> > firewall: |
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> > $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp -m geoip --src-cc CN -j DROP |
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> > $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp -m geoip --src-cc KR -j DROP |
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> > $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp -m geoip --src-cc TW -j DROP |
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> > $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p tcp -m geoip --src-cc HK -j DROP |
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> > This way you have 4 simple rules which do the work of that entire script. |
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> > On 10/10/05, *Taka John Brunkhorst* <antiwmac@×××××.com |
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> > <mailto:antiwmac@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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> > nice but why do we need to block them? |
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> > ssh worms? or just lamers? |
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> > -- |
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> > antiwmac@×××××.com <mailto:antiwmac@×××××.com> |
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> > Taka John Brunkhorst |
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