RE: [gentoo-security] [OT?] automatically firewalling off IPs

[Tad Glines]

These rules only block out the offending IP. All others remain un-blocked.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Efros [mailto:powerman@×××××××.ua]
> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 3:54 PM
> To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] [OT?] automatically firewalling off IPs
>
> Hi!
>
> On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 02:24:23PM -0700, Tad Glines wrote:
> > These are the rules that I'm using.
> >
> > # Track connections to SSH
> > -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m state --state ESTABLISHED --tcp-flags FIN,ACK
> > FIN,ACK \
> >    --dport 22 -m recent --name SSH --set
> > -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -m state --state ESTABLISHED --tcp-flags RST RST
> \
> >    --dport 22 -m recent --name SSH --set
> >
> > # Drop if connection rate exceeds 4/minute
> > -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 22 -m recent --name SSH \
> >    --rcheck --seconds 60 --hitcount 4 -m limit -j LOG --log-prefix
> > "SSH_limit: "
> > -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 22 -m recent --name SSH \
> >    --rcheck --seconds 60 --hitcount 4 -j DROP
> >
> > # Drop if connection rate exceeds 20/hour
> > -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 22 -m recent --name SSH \
> >    --rcheck --seconds 3600 --hitcount 20 -m limit -j LOG --log-prefix
> > "SSH_limit: "
> > -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 22 -m recent --name SSH \
> >    --rcheck --seconds 3600 --hitcount 20 -j DROP
>
> What about DoS because of these rules? Imagine somebody run SSH
> connections to your host every 10 seconds while you don't have
> already-opened SSH connection to server...... In this case you never
> will have a chance to log in to your server (and fix this issue)?!
>
> --
> 			WBR, Alex.
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