> > > > I am constantly getting abuse from azure, amazon, digital ocean > cloud. > > > x.x.x.x is blocked because of many connection and unblock with > 'mysqladmin flush-hosts' > > Do you mean you do not want ANY connections from those sources?
This is shared web server, so I need to allow what ever else is not being abused at that time. > You mention "abuse" which makes me think that these are not legitimate > connection attempts and Maria is only blocking them after they have tried > NN times and failed. > > That sounds like you have port 3306 open to the internet, which is > generally considered a Very Bad Thing. (As it is for any port you don't > need the random internet to connect to) I know, but 3306 is not exposed. It are the websites being abused, as in not following robots.txt standard etc. Some mild form of dos. > I would suggest you close this port to the internet immediately. If you > do need connections from the internet, then adjust your firewall to > restrict it to accept connections from them explicitly. > > Apologies if I'm misinterpreting this, but if the above is true then I > also suggest you review your basic computer security. > :) no worries. Unfortunately my security is of that level, that simple minded web developers have problems with it and take their hosting somewhere else. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
