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OverlordQ
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
Posts: 200
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| Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 3:10 am Post subject: blocking ip addresses |
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Is there any way to stop some <expletive deleted> from trying to spam the <deleted> out of my site? Besides adding them to iptables and grin+bear it? I've dropped almost 100k packets since November 13th, and although I doubt it effects anything in any severe way, it's just very very very <deleted> annoying. And of course it's some <deleted> country so I despite me being nice and emailing them a few times nicely, they wont do jack <deleted>.
Yay. |
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pclissold
Joined: 24 Oct 2003
Posts: 472
Location: Netherlands
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| Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 5:14 am Post subject: |
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The best thing to do is work off your anger and frustration by submitting a post full of f :x :? :evil: :shock: ing expletives to Linode forums :)
Then, if it's not bogging down your machine, block their IPs and forget them.
If you tar pit them or similar, they may well respond by having one of their botnets launch a DoS attack against your Linode, then caker has to null route your IP, then you get so mad that your head explodes. |
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sarge
Joined: 19 Dec 2004
Posts: 58
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:05 am Post subject: You can block specific countries |
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You can try blocking specific countries. If they're using your webforms, then try mod_geoip. If they're using smtp directly, then you can use an iptables filter program to block that port to specific countries.
Top 12 spam-producing countries in 2004 according to Sophos:
1 United States......................35.70%
2 South Korea........................24.98%
3 China (incl Hong Kong)............9.71%
4 France................................3.19%
5 Spain..................................2.74%
6 Canada...............................2.68%
7 Japan..................................2.10%
8 Brazil..................................1.95%
9 United Kingdom.....................1.57%
10 Germany............................1.23%
11 Australia............................1.22%
12 Poland...............................1.20%
Others..................................11.73%
Good luck! |
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