I have a question. I have a lot of different ip addresses hitting my server. They try the log in name of root or something else. I notice it all day.
What can I do to stop these guys? Is there any way to block them or what? Thanks for any reply.


Bill Chaney

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Re: Hackers
By: Bill Chaney to All on Sat Oct 24 2015 12:49 pm

I have a question. I have a lot of different ip addresses hitting my
server. They try the log in name of root or something else. I notice it all day.
What can I do to stop these guys? Is there any way to block them or what? Thanks for any reply.

welcome to the internet
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Re: Hackers
By: Bill Chaney to All on Sat Oct 24 2015 12:49 pm

I have a question. I have a lot of different ip addresses hitting my server. They try the log in name of root or something else. I notice it all day.
What can I do to stop these guys? Is there any way to block them or what? Thanks for any reply.

welcome to the internet
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Yeah, I have the feeling it's something I have to get used to.

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Re: Re: Hackers
By: Bill Chaney to Mro on Sat Oct 24 2015 09:59 pm

Re: Hackers
By: Bill Chaney to All on Sat Oct 24 2015 12:49 pm

I have a question. I have a lot of different ip addresses hitting my server. They try the log in name of root or something else. I notice it all day.
What can I do to stop these guys? Is there any way to block them or what? Thanks for any reply.

welcome to the internet
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Yeah, I have the feeling it's something I have to get used to.

having a server on the internet means you get constant attacks. you can use ipdeny to generate country lists and then add them to your ip.can
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Re: Re: Hackers
By: Bill Chaney to Mro on Sat Oct 24 2015 09:59 pm

Re: Hackers
By: Bill Chaney to All on Sat Oct 24 2015 12:49 pm

I have a question. I have a lot of different ip addresses hitting my server. They try the log in name of root or something else. I notice it all day.
What can I do to stop these guys? Is there any way to block them or what? Thanks for any reply.

welcome to the internet
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Yeah, I have the feeling it's something I have to get used to.

having a server on the internet means you get constant attacks. you can use ipdeny to generate country lists and then add them to your ip.can
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I've been putting ip addresses in ip.can all night. Thanks for the advice with ipdeny. I'm going to try that.

Bill Chaney

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Re: Re: Hackers
By: Bill Chaney to Mro on Sat Oct 24 2015 09:59 pm

Re: Hackers
By: Bill Chaney to All on Sat Oct 24 2015 12:49 pm

I have a question. I have a lot of different ip addresses hitting my server. They try the log in name of root or something else. I notice it all day.
What can I do to stop these guys? Is there any way to block them or what? Thanks for any reply.

welcome to the internet
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Yeah, I have the feeling it's something I have to get used to.

having a server on the internet means you get constant attacks. you can use ipdeny to generate country lists and then add them to your ip.can
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Question. How do I go about putting wildcards on a range of ip addresses?

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Re: Re: Hackers
By: Bill Chaney to Mro on Sun Oct 25 2015 01:04 am

Re: Re: Hackers
By: Bill Chaney to Mro on Sat Oct 24 2015 09:59 pm

Re: Hackers
By: Bill Chaney to All on Sat Oct 24 2015 12:49 pm

I have a question. I have a lot of different ip addresses hitting my server. They try the log in name of root or something else. I notice it all day.
What can I do to stop these guys? Is there any way to block them or what? Thanks for any reply.

welcome to the internet
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Yeah, I have the feeling it's something I have to get used to.

having a server on the internet means you get constant attacks. you can use ipdeny to generate country lists and then add them to your ip.can
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Question. How do I go about putting wildcards on a range of ip addresses?

See http://wiki.synchro.net/config:filter_files for details.
e.g. "192.168.*"

You can't filter "ranges" of IP addresses however.


digital man

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Re: Re: Hackers
By: Bill Chaney to Mro on Sun Oct 25 2015 01:04 am

Re: Re: Hackers
By: Bill Chaney to Mro on Sat Oct 24 2015 09:59 pm

Re: Hackers
By: Bill Chaney to All on Sat Oct 24 2015 12:49 pm

I have a question. I have a lot of different ip addresses hitting my server. They try the log in name of root or something else. I notice it all day.
What can I do to stop these guys? Is there any way to block them or what? Thanks for any reply.

welcome to the internet
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Yeah, I have the feeling it's something I have to get used to.

having a server on the internet means you get constant attacks. you can use ipdeny to generate country lists and then add them to your ip.can
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Question. How do I go about putting wildcards on a range of ip addresses?

See http://wiki.synchro.net/config:filter_files for details.
e.g. "192.168.*"

You can't filter "ranges" of IP addresses however.

digital man

Ahh, thanks for the information.

Bill Chaney

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Re: Re: Hackers
By: Bill Chaney to Mro on Sun Oct 25 2015 12:18 am

I've been putting ip addresses in ip.can all night. Thanks for the advice with ipdeny. I'm going to try that.

here's another thing. use sbbs/ctrl/spambait.cfg

they send to that email addy, they get blocked.
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Re: Re: Hackers
By: Bill Chaney to Mro on Sun Oct 25 2015 01:04 am

Yeah, I have the feeling it's something I have to get used to.

having a server on the internet means you get constant attacks. you can use ipdeny to generate country lists and then add them to your ip.can
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Question. How do I go about putting wildcards on a range of ip addresses?

###.###.*
###.*

145~ (anything with 145 blocked)
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Re: Re: Hackers
By: Bill Chaney to Digital Man on Sun Oct 25 2015 10:55 am

Ahh, thanks for the information.

you can do a whois on their ip addy and find out the ranges that isp uses.
then you can manually block the ranges with wildcards.
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Re: Re: Hackers
By: Bill Chaney to Mro on Sun Oct 25 2015 01:04 am

Yeah, I have the feeling it's something I have to get used to.

having a server on the internet means you get constant attacks. you can use ipdeny to generate country lists and then add them to your ip.can
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Question. How do I go about putting wildcards on a range of ip addresses?

###.###.*
###.*

145~ (anything with 145 blocked)

Great thanks, this helps a lot.

Bill Chaney

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I have a question. I have a lot of different ip addresses hitting my server. They try the log in name of root or something else. I notice it all day. What can I do to stop these guys? Is there any way to block them or what? Thanks for any reply.

A free open source 3rd party software you can use is pfsense:

https://www.pfsense.org/download/

If you have a spare computer with an extra network card, it has alot of network security features as well as bandwidth monitoring.

You can probably run it as a Virtual Machine if you purchase a multi-port network card.

I was looking for purchasing one of their products because of its small size.

Lith,

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Re: Hackers
By: Bill Chaney to All on Sat Oct 24 2015 12:49 pm

I have a question. I have a lot of different ip addresses hitting my server. They try the log in name of root or something else. I notice it all day. What can I do to stop these guys? Is there any way to block them

I use peerblock (peerblock.com) on my BBS machine and block the following countries - it's about 5 million IPs. :/ It drastically cut down on the amount of crap login attempts.

Ukraine, Czech Republic, China, Russia, Romania, Taiwan

|01-|03nolageek

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Re: Hackers
By: nolageek to Bill Chaney on Mon Oct 26 2015 05:57 pm

I use peerblock (peerblock.com) on my BBS machine and block the following countries - it's about 5 million IPs. :/ It drastically cut down on the amount of crap login attempts.

Ukraine, Czech Republic, China, Russia, Romania, Taiwan

yep i use peerblock. you have to use your custom lists and dont trust the ones they use though. you will block a lot of legit people.
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Re: Hackers
By: Bill Chaney to All on Sat Oct 24 2015 12:49 pm

I have a question. I have a lot of different ip addresses hitting my server. They try the log in name of root or something else. I notice it all day. What can I do to stop these guys? Is there any way to block them

I use peerblock (peerblock.com) on my BBS machine and block the following countries - it's about 5 million IPs. :/ It drastically cut down on the amount of crap login attempts.

Ukraine, Czech Republic, China, Russia, Romania, Taiwan

|01-|03nolageek

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Yeah, I just downloaded peerblock, just trying to figure it out. Thanks for
the reply.

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