W.Kenworthy wrote:
The majority of *crap* hitting my firewall (in Oz) comes from China.
Use geoip && iptables to block China for a more peaceful life. Its not
as though there's any valuable sites there unless you have relatives or
a reason to access something there! Taiwan and Hong Kong have also been
suggested as sources, but so far they are not even close to the biggie.
As a side effect, as well as messenger spam, it blocks large numbers of
other malicious scans/probes/*crap* - enough do this and it might
convince the relevant authorities to clean up their own backyard ...
BillK
On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 12:43 +0000, Stroller wrote:
On 26 Dec 2005, at 11:17, Dale wrote:
Well, I did go to the site but it was *after* I got the traffic.
How did they find me to begin with? I assume it was just a random
hit. Sort of like a shot in the dark.
Well, I did a whois for the link that was provided in the traffic. It
is hosted by godaddy so I sent them a email at abuse-godaddy. They seem
to be a reputable company so maybe they will look into it. The rest of
the sites it links to are somewhere else, inside the US though. I do
know our local district attorney though, He knows some of the feds so
if I keep getting them, I may bug him a bit. Sometimes it hits every
minute or two one right after the other. I thought it was ntp at first
but it was not real consistant like ntp is.
I went to a site once and I think everything is set to stealth. I can't
remember where it was though. This is a new install so I guess I need
to find that site that tests it and see what it says. I run iptables to
share my internet with the 3 servers connected here but I have no clue
how it is set up. I don't understand iptables really.
Anyway, the ball is rolling now. Let's see who gets hit.
Dale
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